From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 10 14:26:54 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80B9E37B401 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 14:26:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E80AE43E4A for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 14:26:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([12.242.158.67]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53) with ESMTP id <20030110222652053003t11re>; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 22:26:52 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0AMUvqN025956 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 14:30:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0AMUqeI025955; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 14:30:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Seagate Barracuda ATA IV ST380021A References: <20030110061803.GA14847@mrv.tusur.ru> <44bs2og502.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20030110200721.GV1196@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 10 Jan 2003 14:30:52 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20030110200721.GV1196@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Message-ID: <2obs2ofxib.s2o@localhost.localdomain> Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Roman Neuhauser writes: > to expand on this: hard disk vendors lie to the customers. when you > buy an "80 GB" disk you actually buy 80 * 1000 ^ 3 (Lowell, I don't think > drive got *that* big yet :), not 80 * 1024 ^ 3. > > American hd buyers might try a class action lawsuit. :) No doubt the lawyers would bring in Expert Witnesses saying that a GB is 10^9 bytes. And they'd be right. And wrong. I noticed Linux boot msgs giving sizes in "MiB", etc. Maybe a good idea, but it's ugly and I'd prefer an official FreeBSD dictionary for such things wherein GB = 2^30 in all docs, msgs, and source. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message