Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Jul 1999 14:34:46 +0200 (MET DST) | From | (Guest section DW) | Subject | Re: What means 'model: ST1480 SUN0424' (was: NCR810 problems on 2.2.10-ac10) |
| |
R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl writes:
> According to Seagate it holds 426 Mb (*) of data. My guess is that that's > where the 0424 comes from. (426/424 ~=~ (1 computer Mb) / 1e6)
No - you must buy a new pocket calculator. Both Seagate and Sun follow the standard. Nobody uses your so-called `computer megabytes' for disks. Secondly, 426*(10^6)/(2^20) = 406.2, much smaller than 424. Indeed, 2^20 is nearly 5% larger than 10^6.
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |