Re: hard disk size
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 09:43:35AM -0400, Evan Van Dyke wrote:
> "Brian J. McHugh" wrote:
> > It appears that cfdisk only detects 200 MB of the 212 MB. Is this normal?
>
> This may be your standard Manufacturer Calling 1,000,000 bytes a
> MB when it's really 1048576 bytes so they can call their
> disks bigger than they actually are. I don't have a
> calculator on me so I can't tell, but it's certianly something
> to check.
I have a calculator on hand and it only comes to 209.7 MB figured that
way.
Just thogh I would comment :)
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