On 14/04/07, Thibouille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Very common. Same goes for hard drives. > Manufacturer sell devices with capacity calculated as if (only > marketting purpose of course) 1GB was 1000 MB, 1MB = 1000KB and 1 KB = > 1000 Bytes which of course wrong (1024, not 1000). > > Add on top of that that some device do not have exactly the same > capacity and that's it. Some 80GB hard drives did show 78GB once > formatted. Some others showed 73GB. Quite a difference. But both were > marketted as 80GB hard drive.
Not quite the same, flash cards are obviously silicon memory, no one makes flash RAM in odd sizes. Formatting a 2GB card using FAT then FAT32 loses about 4MB so the difference is likely in the error management implementation of the various cards. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
