Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 17:56:33 -0500 (EST) From: Gorilla <gorilla@elaine.drink.com> To: jerry@border.com (Jerry Kendall) Cc: bb9@interlog.com, gorilla@elaine.drink.com, sjonker@klg.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SyQuest EZ135 Removable cartridge disk drive Message-ID: <199601182256.RAA28457@elaine.drink.com> In-Reply-To: <96Jan18.120511est.20481@janus.border.com> from "Jerry Kendall" at Jan 18, 96 12:03:24 pm
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> Question: It only formatted to about 128Meg... The docs say it it 135Meg. > Is this correct ???? 128*1024*1024=134217728 135*1000*1000=135000000 Disk manufacturers always use 1M = 1e6 bytes, not the 1M = 2^16 we're used to. The fact this inflates the size by about 4% is purely co-incidental.
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