From: lbedford at domain wbtsystems.com
Date: Wed 20 Oct 1999 - 16:05:51 IST
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 03:42:41PM +0100, Colm Buckley gave forth on:
>
> > I just got a new 6490MB hard disk for my laptop, or so the bios
> > settings tells me. When I load up fdisk on the other hand, I'm told
> > its a ~6189MB hard disk.
>
> 6189MB = 6,489,636,864 bytes. Disk size MB are usually "millions of
> bytes" while fdisk uses 1MB = 1,048,576 = 2^20 bytes.
Yeah, there's a whole ongoing bruhaha about this (generally customers
feel a bit miffed when their 13 Gb drives turn out to only hold ~12100 Mb).
They've proposed Mibibytes Gibibytes for the 1024*1024 numbers,
as technically a GigaByte is 1000 * 1000 * 1000 bytes.
Regards
L.
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WBT Systems, Block 2, Harcourt Centre, Harcourt St. 01-4170153
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