Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> I am quite sure the reason this goes faster in Windows than in Linux is
> because the Windows software hijacks the Windows process scheduler and does
> not run other tasks very well while the dinky-tape is in use. Writers of the
> driver for Linux refused to violate the integrity of the Linux process
> scheduler to achieve higher tape performance. That is why you can achieve the
> higher speeds in Windows, and why I conjecture that the dinky-tape rate is
> more sensitive to CPU power/CPU load with Linux than it is in Windows.

This is 100% correct.

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