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

From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/32205: Use standard units for memory/media sizes
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 10:11:41 +0100

 On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 02:16:00AM +0000, Christian Biere wrote:
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 > 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.
 
 Your clock is eight months off, isn't it?
 
 
 Martin