"intelligent" disk drives

Hi, You're quite right, the actual number is "1048576" or 1024KB. But that's not your point is it? Whilst I agree that "going decimal" is easier to understand for the average "man in the street", at the end of the day, the *ONLY* reason that hard drive manufacturers have gone to using 1000 instead of 1024 when calculating sizes is that it artificially makes the drives seem bigger. Or, in other words, it's pure marketing! Point in case, I have a "200GB" Maxtor drive in this machine, which is *actually* a 186GB drive. Both sizes are quite correct depending on your definition of "Kilo", "Mega" etc. Since computers operate in binary, it makes *VASTLY* more sense for "Kilo" to be defined as 1024 than 1000 (2^10) etc. Most operating systems I've used tend to agree.... TTFN - Pete.