Re: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD
There is a movement afoot to replace the imprecise usage of metric
prefixes. The three-power-of-ten usage would retain the regular prefix,
but the ten-power-of-two would be the first part of the prefix, with the
last syllable replaced with bi: thus kibibyte, mebibyte, gibibyte. It
sounds kludgy to me, but if that's your thing, there's your answer: I'd
provide a URL, but it's been a year or so and I've forgot.
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Daniel Barclay wrote:
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> > I've experienced the same with a supposedly ~4.3GB seagate, which both the
> > BIOS and Linux read as 4.1GB... your guess makes a lot of sense, and its
> > consequence is that we're being fooled by HDD manufacturers.
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> No, you're not.
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> You're just not paying attention to how we computer users use the SI prefix
> "giga" imprecisely, and to the fact that disk capacities aren't inherently
> tied to powers of two they way memory capacities are (through address bus
> widths).
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> Remember that there's the real (SI standard) "kilo" (1000) and our binary
> "kilo" (1024) prefix, the real "mega" and a fully binary "mega" (along with
> a hybrid), and the real "giga" and fully binary "giga" (and two hydrids).
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> Daniel
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