missing piece of HDD while installed F7 for thinkpad T61

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Wed Aug 22 06:23:14 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 18:42 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote:
> Whenever you buy a hard drive, the rating you see on the package is
> MiB, not MB - in other words, the system where there are 1,000,000
> Bytes in a "MegaByte". 

The other way around...

MB is decimal MegaByte (1 million bytes)
MiB is binary MebiByte (1024 kilobytes)

The response was partially correct in that hard drives aren't always
written how you expect.  Hard drive manufacturers generally use the
decimal value, simply because it gives a bigger number.  They also
sometimes round the figure off.

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2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386

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