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SCSI-disk size display

Kurt Huwig (kurt@huwig.de)
Sun Jul 27 10:11:00 1997

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2x-SCSI-size.patch

While booting, linux displays this:
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8388608 [4096 MB] [4.1 GB]
which I believe to be untrue, because 4096 MB are exactly 4 GB. With the patch below, it displays the corret result:
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8388608 [4096 MB] [4.0 GB]
The GB are rounded, which was also in the original code, so my second disk reports
SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2031554 [991 MB] [1.0 GB]
although it has a little bit less than 1GB, but 0.9GB would be "wronger"

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