From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
To: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>, Heikki Orsila <shdl@zakalwe.fi>,
Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>, Tony Foiani <tkil@scrye.com>,
Leon Woestenberg <leon.woestenberg@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:45:38 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0701230243590.317@yvahk01.tjqt.qr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m31wlmtuxa.fsf@maximus.localdomain>
On Jan 23 2007 02:04, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
>Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
>
>> But other than the sector size there is no natural power of 2 connected to
>> disk size. A disk can have any odd number of sectors.
>
>But the manufacturers don't count in sectors.
>
>It should be consistent, though. "How many GB of disk space do you
>need to store 2 GB of USB flash, and how many to store 2 GB RAM image"?
Here's the marketing gap a company could jump in:
"first to count in real GB"
-`J'
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-23 1:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2007-01-21 10:40 ` PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2) Bodo Eggert
2007-01-21 11:10 ` Eduard Bloch
2007-01-21 22:08 ` Stefan Richter
2007-01-22 15:53 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-22 16:58 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-22 18:36 ` Alan
2007-01-22 19:24 ` Tony Foiani
2007-01-22 22:26 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-01-22 20:44 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-22 21:17 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-01-22 20:43 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-22 21:22 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-21 14:45 ` Benny Amorsen
2007-01-21 15:06 ` Heikki Orsila
2007-01-21 21:27 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-22 1:56 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-01-22 10:39 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2007-01-22 10:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-01-23 1:04 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-01-23 1:45 ` Jan Engelhardt [this message]
2007-01-23 9:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-01-23 13:14 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-01-20 8:08 Michał Kudła
2007-01-20 10:29 ` David Schwartz
2007-01-20 18:07 ` Leon Woestenberg
2007-01-20 22:54 ` David Schwartz
2007-01-21 0:07 ` Tony Foiani
2007-01-21 21:12 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-22 6:45 ` Tony Foiani
2007-01-22 8:25 ` Roland Kuhn
2007-01-22 15:43 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-21 7:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-21 20:03 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-01-21 20:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-21 17:04 ` Leon Woestenberg
2007-01-21 22:12 ` David Schwartz
2007-01-22 8:49 ` Benny Amorsen
2007-01-27 15:06 ` Andries Brouwer
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