Re: RAID Sizes (was Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?)
--- Willie Wonka wrote:
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> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:04:32 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Willie Wonka <floydstestemail@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: RAID Sizes (was Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in
> the word color?)
> To: Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net>
>
>
> --- Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> > Willie Wonka wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
>
> > Umm, it should be "ATA", not "IDE". "IDE" is a packaging issue,
> while
> > "ATA" is an interface spec.
>
> Yeah, you're right, but that 'accident' happened LONG ago, and
> shoulld've been corrected then - and the IDE Acronym remains
> important
> to many...I did post that they were NOT good examples, but the
> DEBIAN-USER listserv "robocop", seems to hold my posts for 9-12Hrs
> BEFORE actually posting them.....<sigh> :-(
>
>
> > Well, I used to work as a watchmaker, and I can't think of any
> > context where "KB" stands together as written with "K" meaning
> > "karat".
> >
> > Note that "carat" and "karat" are both words, but they mean
> > different things. The first is the name of the unit of weight
> > for gem stones, the latter is the name for the unit of fineness
> > of gold in 1/24 parts.
>
>
> Thanks - you've refreshed my memory;
> 12/18/24 *Karat* Gold -and- .007 ounces = 1 *Carat* in weight ("How
> it's Made"; TV Documentary on the History Channel :-))
>
> There's NO need to repond to me *Off-list*, and I will gladly post a
> COPY of this there....but because of some inexplicable issues, you
> may
> NOT see it *On-List* until some 24hrs later, (some posts I made
> today,
> STILL have not shown up) - but anyway....
>
> Regards
>
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