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:
- It supports a variety of connections like IDE, SCSI, USB, Bluetooth, FireWire, serial ports, and even good old ps/2 mice and keyboards.
- You can connect all kinds of devices—hard drives, DVDs, mice, scanners, web cams... you name it!
- Whether you're using 32-bit or 64-bit Windows versions, Bus Hound has got you covered.
- You can capture tons of data; the only limit is your available memory!
- The software automatically stops capturing data when a trigger condition is met.
- You can measure how well each device reads and writes data in real-time.
- It captures device driver packets like IRPs too!
- You have the power to filter which types of phases to capture.
- No worries about running it on multiple machines—it's unlimited!
- You can capture any number of devices at once without any fuss over bus types.
- It’s super portable! It fits on a diskette for easy transport and quick downloads.
- Drag and drop your captured data into other products in HTML format effortlessly.
- You can save your captured info as a text file or zip file for later use.
- Select devices easily from a graphical tree view—it’s simple!
- You can even capture what happens during system startup.
- Customize how you want to see your captured data—like byte width per line or column order!
- Dive deep into low-level protocols like SCSI sense data and USB setup packets with ease.
- If you want precision timing for each phase down to the microsecond level? No problem!
- Watch I/O happen right on your screen in real-time. It’s pretty cool!
- This is pure software with no need for extra hardware or changes to your system—how convenient!
Limitations
Please note these limitations:
- The tool captures up to 32 commands only at once.
- You’ll only get the first 8 bytes from each data transfer.
- A nag screen pops up sometimes—but hey! It’s not too annoying!
