From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: davids@webmaster.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:11:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45B3122C.20301@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MDEHLPKNGKAHNMBLJOLKEEKNBAAC.davids@webmaster.com>
David Schwartz wrote:
>
> Talk about a cure worse than the disease! So you're saying that 256MB flash
> cards could be advertised as having 268.4MB? A 512MB RAM stick is
> mislabelled and could correctly say 536.8MB? That's just plain craziness.
>
> Adopting IEC 60027-2 just replaces a set of well-understood problems with
> all new problems.
>
Except that you're wrong above. Most 512 MB flash cards are less than
512 MiB; most of them are, in fact, around 512 MB! RAM, of course, is
consistently 512 MiB.
This little tidbit discovered in the process of working on an
application which required powers-of-two flash cards, and finding that
one does have to use one size larger...
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-21 7:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-20 8:08 PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2) Michał Kudła
2007-01-20 10:29 ` David Schwartz
2007-01-20 18:07 ` Leon Woestenberg
2007-01-20 22:54 ` David Schwartz
2007-01-21 0:07 ` Tony Foiani
2007-01-21 21:12 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-22 6:45 ` Tony Foiani
2007-01-22 8:25 ` Roland Kuhn
2007-01-22 15:43 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-21 7:11 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-01-21 20:03 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-01-21 20:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-21 17:04 ` Leon Woestenberg
2007-01-21 22:12 ` David Schwartz
2007-01-22 8:49 ` Benny Amorsen
2007-01-27 15:06 ` Andries Brouwer
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[not found] ` <7FxlV-3sb-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <7FyUF-5XD-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-01-21 10:40 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-01-21 11:10 ` Eduard Bloch
2007-01-21 22:08 ` Stefan Richter
2007-01-22 15:53 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-22 16:58 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-22 18:36 ` Alan
2007-01-22 19:24 ` Tony Foiani
2007-01-22 22:26 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-01-22 20:44 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-22 21:17 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-01-22 20:43 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-22 21:22 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-21 14:45 ` Benny Amorsen
2007-01-21 15:06 ` Heikki Orsila
2007-01-21 21:27 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-22 1:56 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-01-22 10:39 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2007-01-22 10:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-01-23 1:04 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-01-23 1:45 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-23 9:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-01-23 13:14 ` Krzysztof Halasa
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