On Thursday 28 June 2001 08:34 am, Terry wrote:
> From the response I got back from civileme, Linux can only recognize
> a max single drive size of 127 GB. A little bit strange that windowz
> can see a slightly larger hard drive than Linux ... hopefully Linux
> will fix that .. can't have windowz one-upping them now, can they?
> :-)
>
> Terry
Apples-Oranges. HDD manufacturers used one million bytes to a MB,
when actually there's 1024x1024 bytes to a MB. Since Windoze is
claiming 137, they're using 1000 instead of the actual 1024. They're
fibbin, and it's just that Linux doesn't use their creative accounting
method ;)
IOW's, and since we're working with GB's, 1024/1024/1024 = .9313~
So Microsoft's 137 GB, is only really 127 GB, or the new 30 GB HDD you
just bought ... is really a little less than 28 GB.
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Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
