Hard disks (not euphoria)
This message has nothing to do with Euphoria, but possible someone may
have an answer to my question:
I just bought a 2.5 GB hard disk (Micropolis Mustang) and while
partitioning it noticed it wasn't 2.5 GB, but about 2.38 GB... after
some time I found that the drive could hold exactly 2,500,000,000
bytes! I know this is cheating, but made me think about numerical
conventions... I know that 1 KB is 1024 bytes, but:
a) Does 1 MB = 1000 KB or 1024 KB?
b) Does 1 GB = 1000 MB or 1024 MB?
c) Does all hard disk are catalogued with 1,000-bytes KiloBytes, and
1,000-KB Megs, and 1,000-Megs Gigas? In other words, do they all cheat?
I also couldn't made one single partition on the disk, the biggest
partition i could made was of about 2.09 GB... I used the fdisk in my
Windows 95 start floppy, and DOS 6.22 fdisk. How do people with 9
Gigs drives work! they should have about 5 partitions per drive!!!
Any ideas besides getting Win NT?
Regards,
Daniel Berstein
danielberstein at usa.net
http://www27.pair.com/daber/architek
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