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"xmp" <> wrote in message
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> Barry Watzman wrote:
>
> > Regarding the 137 gigabyte limit beyond which 48bit LBA addressing is
> > required: is that 137 decimal gigabytes, or 137 binary gigabytes?
> >
> > I'd like to see that number expressed as BYTES (e.g. as one single
> > number with a lot of digits and commas).
>
> 2 to the 37th power is 137,438,953,472 bytes.
> That's 137.438953472 gigabytes. (decimal)
> Or 128 gibibytes. (binary)
>
> 28 bit (2^2 and 512 byte (2^9) would be 2^37 byte.
>
> That makes since if it's 28-bit LBA -- but I'm not sure.
>

10000000000000000000000000000000000000
this is your binary
nice clean number that.....

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