On 2000-Jan-13 16:45:45 +1100, "Rodney W. Grimes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>All of the boot time reporting is in 2^20 MB:
>ad0: 3079MB (6306048 sectors), 6256 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
>
>Due the math if you doubt me, oh, and Quantum calls this a 3.2G disk
>drive :-)
6256*16*63*512 = 3,228,696,576 ~= 3.2*10^9 or 3079.1*2^20 or 3.007*2^30
Some manufacturers note that `1GB = 10^9 bytes' in the fine print.
Quantum can also state (correctly) that they are complying with the SI
standard. This is still an improvement on the old approach of quoting
_unformatted_ capacity (which is ~50% more).
Peter
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