Today at 11:07pm, Faisal Naeem expounded:

++ I bought the drive specifically so I can run linux and maybe Solaris 8 etc
++ on it. I have w2k on my primary hard drive and even partition magic
++ detects the drive as 33G which is disconcerting.

This *probably* isn't it, but:

Hard drives are sold where 1Gbyte = 10^9 bytes
Memory is sold where       1Gbyte = 2^30 bytes

It does happen to be that 40 decimal gigabytes are equal to about 34
binary gigabytes ...

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