From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>, Heikki Orsila <shdl@zakalwe.fi>,
       Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>, Tony Foiani <tkil@scrye.com>,
       Leon Woestenberg <leon.woestenberg@gmail.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)
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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:48:24 +0100
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Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> writes:

> Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> writes:
>
>> It's just that storage vendors broke the computer rule and went with 1000.
>
> 1024 etc. is (should be) natural to disks because the sector size
> is 512 B, 2048 B or something like that.

But other than the sector size there is no natural power of 2 connected to
disk size.  A disk can have any odd number of sectors.

Andreas.

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