From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Oct 31 18:34:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA23350 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 18:34:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA23341 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 18:34:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id VAA00308; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 21:34:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 21:34:06 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199811010234.VAA00308@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Adam David Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa atapi-cd.c wcd.c In-Reply-To: <199810311535.PAA04495@veda.is> References: <19981031120918.Y5846@freebie.lemis.com> <199810311535.PAA04495@veda.is> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < said: > It is also confusing that MB means 10^3 * 2^10 bytes for disk manufacturers, > and I wonder how they define GB and TB... Actually, they define them in the perfectly ordinary SI fashion: 10**6, 10**9, and 10**12, respectively. Of course, this is very inconvenient since it is not an even multiple of an allocation unit. (The ``10.2 GB'' drive I wasted four hours trying to get sysinstall to speak to today actually has 19,923,120 sectors, which factorizes as (2**3)(3**2)(5)(7)(59)(67) -- a pretty odd size, if you ask me! In computer-friendly terms, it's really a ``9.5 GB'' (GiB?) drive.) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message