> obviously ;-) When calculating, I did remember that one megabit is not > 1000000 bits, but forgot about the byte. Thanks for bringing that into > my mind again. One megabit IS actually 10^6 bit - take a look at: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html What you are thinking about is one mebibit, which is 2^20 bit, take a look at the boot message of a recent kernel and see those prefix'es used for ide disk cache sice. - David
