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

From: "Jonathan A. Kollasch" <jakllsch@kollasch.net>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/32205: Use standard units for memory/media sizes
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 12:41:48 -0600

 On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 02:16:00AM +0000, Christian Biere wrote:
 
 IMHO disks should stay with the binary units, but indeed should
 be labeled MiB or GiB. It's the HDD manufactures that are in the
 wrong here. Their product is sold by decimal bytes yet the real
 unit is sectors. The binary units are much better suited to
 measuring sectors.
 
 	Jonathan Kollasch