I'm not going to have an the G vs Gi discuss.... 98% of the industries that uses the term G to mean G 2% of the industry (and not even all the computer industry) uses G to mean Gi S On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 15:02, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca>wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Singer X.J. Wang wrote: > > > That's a deviation of less then 0.5%.. that's not that bad in most > industries.. > > > > S > > > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 14:48, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca> > wrote: > > > > over the last day on the beagleboard list, there was an animated > > discussion that touched on the fact that some "dd" copies to SD > cards > > was failing since the actual capacity of the SD card was noticeably > > less than advertised. as in, trying to write a 4G image to an > > allegedly 4G SD card failed, "no space left on device". > > > > is there a utility in linux that will tell me that *real* capacity > > of an SD card if i pop it into the SD slot? if i write an image > to an > > allegedly 8G micro SD card and pop it into my beagleboard, and > stop in > > u-boot, what i can do is: > > > > # mmcinfo > > Device: OMAP SD/MMC > > Manufacturer ID: 27 > > OEM: 5048 > > Name: SD08G > > Tran Speed: 25000000 > > Rd Block Len: 512 > > SD version 2.0 > > High Capacity: Yes > > Capacity: 7969177600 <--- AHA! > > Bus Width: 4-bit > > # > > > > that's *clearly* less than a true 8G. is there a way to see that > in > > linux? thanks. > > huh? 8G is officially 8589934592. the value above is a full 8% > smaller. > > rday > > -- > > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA > http://crashcourse.ca > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday > LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday > ======================================================================== > -- Pythian proud winner of Oracle North America Titan Award for Exadata Solution...watch the video on pythian.com