Messages in this thread | | | From | Albert Cahalan <> | Subject | Re: GB vs. MB | Date | Wed, 27 Nov 1996 01:17:29 -0500 (EST) |
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>>> I like the disk size message in sd.c but since >> 1MB == 1024*1024 == 2^20, >> >> It isn't as simple as that. >> >> 1MB of RAM is, indeed, equal to 1024*1024 bytes. >> But 1.44MB floppy has 1.44*1000*1024 bytes. >> With hard disks, your mileage may vary. > > I don't know of too many SCSI floppy drives though... :-)
The Zip drive counts I think. It is 93 to 100 MB, depending on what a MB is and which bytes you include in your count.
> I think that linux should report what's true, not what the > marketers shove down our throats. A megabyte is 2^20, it > should be reported as such.
People expect a disk MB to be 10^6 now, so maybe Linux should do what people expect. With 2^20, it looks like Linux makes disks get smaller.
I think we should just be glad that hard disk manufacturers don't throw in a factor of 4 for compression -- not yet anyway.
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