Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

From: Andreas Schwab
Date: Tue Jan 23 2007 - 04:24:07 EST


Krzysztof Halasa <khc@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> But other than the sector size there is no natural power of 2 connected to
>> disk size. A disk can have any odd number of sectors.
>
> But the manufacturers don't count in sectors.

The exact number of sectors is often printend on the label.

Andreas.

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