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"This is a general scam on the part of disk manufacturers; IBM is merely following everyone else's lead. My 420MB drive magically became 405, my 1.6GB is 1525 MB, or about 1.49GB in reality. This is the Way Things Are Done, like it or not. " I don't find this a scam, it is well defined, and more convenient than blindly folowing the usual 1024 = 1000 method (whichis after all the non-standard definition!)