Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 15:25:24 -0400 From: parv <parv@pair.com> To: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: standard powers of two Was: Drive Space - Am I Getting All I Should? Message-ID: <20020605192524.GA7805@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0206051210060.29324-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> References: <3CFC98EA.9000908@potentialtech.com> <Pine.GSO.4.44.0206051210060.29324-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
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in message <Pine.GSO.4.44.0206051210060.29324-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>, 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
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