The following reply was made to PR kern/32205; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/32205: Use standard units for memory/media sizes
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 21:51:29 +0000

 On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 02:16:00AM +0000, Christian Biere wrote:
 > The kernel boot messages use the infamous non-standard units to
 > display memory and media sizes, so that for example a 120 GB
 > disk is falsely reported as 111 GB disk. 111 GiB would be correct
 > but such binary units are only commonly used for chip-based
 > memory.
 
 I tried this once, disk (or in my case CF) manufacturesre lie so badly
 that you have to round the values up significantly as well in order
 to get the size written on the box.
 
 	David
 
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 David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk