From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Configure.help editorial policy
Date: 27 Dec 2001 14:26:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8FeKjZHHw-B@khms.westfalen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p05101000b84a980dd9e1@[10.0.0.42]>
In-Reply-To: <p05101000b84a980dd9e1@[10.0.0.42]>
tas@mindspring.com (Timothy A. Seufert) wrote on 22.12.01 in <p05101000b84a980dd9e1@[10.0.0.42]>:
> Vojtech Pavlich wrote:
>
> >4Mbit bandwidth is usually 4 * 10^3 * 2^10 bits per second.
> >20GB harddrive is usually 20 * 10^6 * 2^10 bytes.
>
> A 20 GB hard drive is always 20 * 10^9 bytes. I'm not sure why so
> many people on the linux-kernel list think otherwise, but the hard
> drive industry is quite consistent in its use of power-of-10 units to
> describe capacity. See:
>From dmesg:
"195371568 sectors (100030 MB)" (calls itself 100)
"8250001 512-byte hdwr sectors (4224 MB)" (calls itself 4330)
I take back whatever I said. It's not 1024^n. It's not 1024*1000^n. It's
not 1000^n. I don't know what it is, except it's all a lie.
MfG Kai
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2001-12-22 20:32 Configure.help editorial policy Timothy A. Seufert
2001-12-27 12:26 ` Kai Henningsen [this message]
2001-12-27 14:55 ` Davidovac Zoran
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2001-12-30 12:06 Martin Knoblauch
2001-12-30 4:10 Timothy A. Seufert
2001-12-27 20:20 Andries.Brouwer
2001-12-27 15:42 Andries.Brouwer
2001-12-27 17:33 ` Timo Jantunen
2001-12-25 20:54 Andries.Brouwer
2001-12-24 11:08 Matt Reuther
2001-12-23 23:44 Andries.Brouwer
2001-12-23 4:06 Andries.Brouwer
2001-12-25 11:40 ` Pavel Machek
2001-12-23 3:40 Andries.Brouwer
2001-12-22 13:30 Per Jessen
2001-12-22 2:42 Thomas Hood
2001-12-21 19:34 Timothy Covell
2001-12-21 20:24 ` Chris Ricker
2001-12-22 2:01 ` Timothy Covell
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2001-12-20 21:28 ` Reid Hekman
2001-12-27 12:10 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-12-28 13:10 ` David Woodhouse
2001-12-20 21:17 Petr Vandrovec
[not found] <esr@thyrsus.com>
2001-12-20 19:32 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-20 20:27 ` Reid Hekman
2001-12-20 20:23 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-22 0:04 ` Rob Landley
2001-12-20 22:41 ` Mike Eldridge
2001-12-21 15:47 ` Matthias Andree
2001-12-20 22:49 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-12-27 11:57 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-12-27 14:22 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-12-27 16:42 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-29 17:22 ` Dan Hopper
2001-12-20 23:31 ` David Garfield
2001-12-20 23:52 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-21 0:20 ` Tom Rini
2001-12-21 18:43 ` David Garfield
2001-12-21 18:40 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-21 19:18 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-21 20:09 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-12-21 23:03 ` Jeff Mcadams
2001-12-27 10:35 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-12-21 20:10 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-12-21 20:31 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-21 20:36 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-21 20:47 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-21 21:00 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-12-21 21:06 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-21 21:10 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-21 21:33 ` Thomas Dodd
2001-12-21 22:05 ` Nicholas Knight
2001-12-22 0:07 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-12-22 0:27 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-23 22:46 ` Cameron Simpson
2001-12-21 20:57 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-12-21 21:03 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-21 21:09 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-27 11:22 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-12-27 11:18 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-12-21 21:28 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-12-27 11:12 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-12-21 20:11 ` Timo Jantunen
2001-12-22 0:32 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-22 16:14 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-12-27 10:45 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-12-27 14:19 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-12-27 19:44 ` Allan Sandfeld
2001-12-27 20:18 ` Acrimon Beet
2001-12-21 20:23 ` David Garfield
2001-12-21 20:56 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-21 21:17 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-23 22:42 ` Cameron Simpson
2001-12-23 22:53 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-23 22:46 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-26 17:44 ` Riley Williams
2001-12-26 22:17 ` Cameron Simpson
2001-12-26 23:34 ` Dominik Mierzejewski
2001-12-27 0:08 ` Riley Williams
2001-12-27 0:52 ` Dominik Mierzejewski
2001-12-27 21:34 ` Riley Williams
2001-12-27 23:27 ` Pavel Machek
2001-12-27 6:02 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-12-27 11:24 ` Dominik Mierzejewski
2001-12-27 15:09 ` Martin Mares
2001-12-28 3:23 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-12-28 9:58 ` Matthias Andree
2001-12-27 0:09 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-27 0:39 ` Dominik Mierzejewski
2001-12-27 19:46 ` Riley Williams
2001-12-27 11:46 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-12-27 21:42 ` Riley Williams
2001-12-23 23:00 ` Cameron Simpson
2001-12-23 23:10 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-23 23:12 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-24 6:25 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-12-27 15:15 ` Gábor Lénárt
2001-12-27 11:41 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-12-21 22:53 ` Stephen Satchell
2001-12-21 22:55 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-21 23:07 ` Nicholas Knight
2001-12-22 19:40 ` T. A.
2001-12-22 0:12 ` Rob Landley
2001-12-22 9:58 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-23 9:40 ` Rob Landley
2001-12-23 19:11 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-27 11:35 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-12-23 9:47 ` David Woodhouse
2001-12-21 19:12 ` David Weinehall
2001-12-22 4:49 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-21 10:36 ` Mike Jagdis
2001-12-22 0:23 ` Rob Landley
2001-12-22 8:33 ` Eric Windisch
2001-12-22 8:53 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-23 9:17 ` David Woodhouse
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