From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 5 12:23: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F22837B400 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:23:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sdn-ar-008dcwashp040.dialsprint.net ([63.178.91.152] helo=moo.holy.cow) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17FgMt-0003A9-00; Wed, 05 Jun 2002 12:22:52 -0700 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id EA45F50CB8; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 15:25:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 15:25:24 -0400 From: parv To: Jan Grant Cc: questions Subject: Re: standard powers of two Was: Drive Space - Am I Getting All I Should? Message-ID: <20020605192524.GA7805@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: parv , Jan Grant , questions References: <3CFC98EA.9000908@potentialtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG in message , wrote Jan Grant thusly... > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Bill Moran wrote: > > > Unfortunately, there's no standards body that has stated what the value > > is for a G, so the HDD manufacturers are free to do whatever they want. > > There are "proper" values for kibibyte, gibibyte, etc. I kid you > not. I think NIST or IEC were responsible. The "giga" prefix _is_ an SI > prefix meaning 10^9. this point had been already discussed on -doc list in at least 35+ messages thread w/in 2 days titled "inconsistent use of data units". message id of the first message is <3C743707.3080505@adacel.com> & time "21 Feb 2002 10:53:43 +1100". -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message