"intelligent" disk drives

[Tony Duell]

> > I wonder what defintions have been used for a gigabyte. 2^30 and 10^9 are
> > obvious and easy to justify. Did anyone ever use 2^20*10^ or 2^10*10^6 I
> > wonder?
> 
> Well, probably 2^20*10^ 3 (your turn)

YEs, that's esactly what I meant. Ooops...

> I've seen both.  But usually expressed in terms of MBs
> ("A GB is 1024 MB"/"A GB is 1000 MB")
> (1024000000/1048576000)?

OK, but since we've already seen 3 definitions for MB, I guess that means 
a GB could be : 

10^9 (1000 * 10^6)
10^6*2^10 (1000 * (2^10*10^3) or 1024 * 10^6))
10^3*2^20 (1000 * 2^20 or 1024 * (2^10*10^3)) 
2^30 (1024 * 2^20)
where the parthenesised expressions give the ways each value could be 
obtained from onwe of the multipliers you gave and a definintion of MB 
we've already seen in the obvious way.

> It's as futile an argument as trying to explain "DB9".
> (a 25 pin shell, usually with 1 through 8 and 20)

Although I haev seen 2-7,20 and 22 :-)

-tony