Willie Wonka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I concur; > -- however (and I should refine my statement earlier, about HDD Manu's > in general, as a *lie* - to perhaps *exaggerate*, or a similarly less > harsh word), - your 20GB HDD actually size (contains) is more than 20 > Billion Bytes (likely ~20,587,000,000 bytes). This just makes for > unnecessary further confusion..here's an example using the 'hdparm' > utility (which I'm sure you're familiar with); > > e.g.; I have some 80GB HDDs here, which are actually 82,348MB -or- > 78,533MiB > > ~$ sudo hdparm -I /dev/hda > ... > ... > device size with M = 1024*1024: 78533 MBytes > device size with M = 1000*1000: 82348 MBytes (82 GB)
Actually my drive is really 20GB # hdparm -I /dev/hda ... ... device size with M = 1024*1024: 19077 MBytes device size with M = 1000*1000: 20003 MBytes (20 GB) > I appreciated this dialog/dialogue :-) > All I can think of now, because I'm hungry is > (donuts/doughnuts/dough-nuts). > > Regards Me too, but I'm not hungry, at least not now (1:10 AM) Regards Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]