[5661] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: error in sd.c
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Hegstrom)
Fri Jan 22 17:21:56 1999
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 12:13:30 -0700
From: Eric Hegstrom <ehegstrom@sonoranscanners.com>
Reply-To: ehegstrom@sonoranscanners.com
To: Guest section DW <dwguest@win.tue.nl>
CC: koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu,
linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, niki.waibel@gmx.net
Guest section DW wrote:
> No, you are not willing to understand. Things are so simple:
> 1 M = 1000000. 1 G = 1000000000.
> That is the SI norm. That is the IEEE norm as I learned recently.
> That is what device manufacturers use. (Of course.)
> That is what Windows uses if I understand people correctly.
Well under NT if I check the properties of a file that is 16,215,628
Bytes, it claims it is 15.4 MB ( 16215628/(1024*1024) ) = 15.464427948.
So they do use the 1024B/KB 1024KB/MB convention. The Mac has always
done it this way too. My own opinion is to stick to that but the SI and
IEEE folks never ask me ;)
cheers
-Eric
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