Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932922AbXAWJXt (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:23:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932923AbXAWJXs (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:23:48 -0500 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:59975 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932922AbXAWJXr (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:23:47 -0500 From: Andreas Schwab To: Krzysztof Halasa Cc: Jan Engelhardt , Heikki Orsila , Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>, Tony Foiani , Leon Woestenberg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Schwartz Subject: Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2) References: <7FsPf-51s-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <7FxlV-3sb-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <7FyUF-5XD-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <20070121150618.GA11613@zakalwe.fi> X-Yow: What I need is a MATURE RELATIONSHIP with a FLOPPY DISK... Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:23:32 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Krzysztof Halasa's message of "Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:04:49 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 820 Lines: 23 Krzysztof Halasa writes: > Andreas Schwab writes: > >> 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. > > But the manufacturers don't count in sectors. The exact number of sectors is often printend on the label. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra?e 5, 90409 N?rnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/