Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: patch for sd.c: fix MB vs. GB | Date | 28 Dec 1998 22:01:52 GMT |
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Followup to: <m0zuixK-000vJZC@zamenhof.demon.co.uk> By author: martin@zamenhof.demon.co.uk (Martin Radford) In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > The problem is that the reporting is confused -- the MB number is > bytes / 2^20, but the GB number is MB / 10. Either the MB number > should be changed to bytes / 10^6, or the GB number should be > changed to MB / 2^10. > > I'd be tempted to keep the GB entry as refering to 2^30 bytes, and > replace the MB entry with Mi.B. (i.e. millions of bytes, which seems > to be what manufacturers use). That way, we can keep both camps > happy, and (more important) stop future users from asking why Linux > doesn't recognise the full capacity of their drives. > > So, we'd get > > 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!
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