At 11:14 AM 1/22/99 -0800, mostly Fred wrote:
Every previous time that I have ever ranted about 1.4M,
people
have responded by quoting IBM or the disk box. THIS group responds with
arithmetic and logic.
BTW, FDISK.EXE uses 1048576 for Megabyte.
I bought an IBM Deskstar hard disk that was rated at 810 Megabytes and it
had a note inserted into the packaging that had, IIRC, this to say about it:
Dear Customer,
The disk you have purchased holds 810,549,248 bytes when it
is formatted. Some programs will use the value of 1,048,576 bytes
as the size of a megabyte and will show this disk as having only
773 "megabytes" of storage, other programs will use 1,024,000 bytes
as the size of a megabyte and show the disk as having 791 or 792
megabytes. We don't understand it either, sorry for the confusion.
IBM Support
--Chuck