What is Bus Hound?
Bus Hound
Bus Hound is the first software bus analyzer that can capture I/O, protocol, and performance measurements. It's pretty handy for anyone who needs to keep an eye on data traffic!
Key Features of Bus Hound
Here are some cool features:
- Supports IDE, SCSI, USB, Bluetooth, FireWire, serial ports, and even ps/2 mice and keyboards.
- Connect various devices like hard drives, DVDs, mice, scanners, and more.
- Compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit Windows versions.
- Capable of capturing large amounts of data limited only by available memory.
- Auto stops the capture upon meeting a trigger condition.
- Measures individual read, write, and isochronous device performance.
- Captures device driver packets such as IRPs.
- Filters types of phases to be captured.
- Can run on an unlimited number of machines simultaneously.
- Captures multiple devices in parallel, regardless of bus type.
- Fits on a diskette for easy transport and quick downloads.
- Drag and drop captured data into other products in HTML format.
- Save captured data as a text file or zip file.
- Simple device selection from a graphical tree of devices.
- Capable of capturing the system startup process.
- Customize captured data like byte width per line, column order, and types.
- View low-level protocol data including SCSI sense data and USB setup packets.
- View microsecond resolution timing of each phase.
- Watch I/O on screen in real time.
- Pure software solution with no extra hardware required.
Limitations
Please note these limitations:
- Can capture up to 32 commands at once.
- Only captures the first 8 bytes of each data transfer.
- May display a nag screen occasionally.
