Re: sector size of 2068?

kwrohrer@ce.mediaone.net
Fri, 28 Aug 1998 10:58:11 -0500 (CDT)

And lo, Peter saith unto me:
> Works fine, but i'm a little bit perplexed
> as to its result. It being a "9.1 Gig scsi drive".
>
> Is 8.43 gig really how much is left when you partition off a 9.09 gig
> drive? That just doesn't seem sane. Somebody tell me if I'm crazy.
9,100,000 kbytes = 8.68 GB. One day, some drive manufacturer started
advertising with power-of-10 rather than power-of-2 prefixes, and the
rest all followed suit...

Keith

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