Re: patch for sd.c: fix MB vs. GB

Gregory Maxwell (linker@z.ml.org)
Mon, 28 Dec 1998 19:57:51 -0500 (EST)

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On 28 Dec 1998, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17916240 [9173 Mi.B] [8.5 GB]
> >
> > (And if people ask why the difference, then the 9173 is "marketing
> > megabytes", and the 8.5Gb is the "real figure".)
> >
>
> No! Let's not add more marketing crap here. Keep MB as real
> megabytes!
>
> -hpa

Well, Mi.B is much nicer then having it labeld MB but really be millions
of bytes. Actually it would be nice for it to say [1024 MB/1073 Mi.B].

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