This web page refers to our older busTRACE 6.0 which is no longer shipping. Click here for details on our latest busTRACE version.

Capture I/O activity on your computer or any computer busTRACE 6.0 includes the ability to capture and analyze storage class I/O activity within your Windows PC. Under Windows 2000 (and above), busTRACE also allows you to capture and analyze all low-level USB bus activity.

Bus Architectures Supported
busTRACE 6.0 can capture and analyze storage device I/O activity (e.g. hard drives, tape drives, CD/DVD/HD/BD drives, jukeboxes, etc.) on a variety of bus architectures including:

		IDE/ATA/ATAPI	Serial ATA	Serial ATAPI
		SCSI	iSCSI	Serial Attached SCSI
		Fibre Channel	RAID	USB 1.0 or 2.0
		1394 / Firewire	Multipath I/O (MPIO)	and more!

Under Windows 2000 (and above), busTRACE 6.0 can also capture and analyze all low-level USB bus activity. These are the USB Request Blocks (URBs) that Windows uses to send out USB requests to a device. USB 1.0 and USB 2.0 devices are supported.

If you are capturing USB storage devices (e.g. USB flash drives), busTRACE is particularly powerful as you will be able to not only see the storage class I/O requests that are generated, but also the underlying USB requests. Click here for a sample screenshot.

If you are a busTRACE 5.0 user, click here to find out what's new in busTRACE 6.0.

Key Features
Click on the help icons below to jump to the appropriate section in our busTRACE 6.0 User's Manual (for additional information). View our screenshots to see busTRACE 6.0 in action.

		Advanced user interface with tabbed documents, drag-n-drop pane positioning, tear off tabs, sliding auto-hide windows, and more.
		Capture all CDB requests (e.g. SCSI_REQUEST_BLOCK and SCSI Pass Through IOCTLs).
		Capture all low-level USB requests (e.g. URB, USB Request Blocks).
		Automatic e-mail notification.
		External hardware input and output trigger points through your COM ports.
		Capture all Power Management events (i.e. IRP_MJ_POWER).
		Capture all Plug and Play events (i.e. IRP_MJ_PNP).
		Capture all port driver IOCTLs.
		Ability to adjust capture settings on a per device basis.
		Ability to set trigger points on a per device basis.
		Our kernel mode CDB filter allows you to configure busTRACE to capture only the CDBs you are interested in analyzing.
		Capture boot time I/O activity.
		Capture I/O activity directly to an exported file.
		Share busTRACE capture files with other users of busTRACE 6.0.
		Export captured I/O activity to a text file, HTML file, XML Spreadsheet, or CSV file.
		Customize which fields appear in the I/O Capture List and in which order. Choose from up to 29 different fields.
		Our I/O Details window allows you to view, on a per I/O basis, the error analysis, the fully decoded CDB, any raw data transferred, and the data structures used to initiate the I/O request.
		Graphically view interleaved I/O activity.
		Sort captured I/Os by any number of sort criteria.
		Filter from view captured I/O activity using various filters.
		Find an I/O request you are interested in analyzing.
		Bookmark any captured I/O.
		Attach a user comment to any captured I/O.
		Perform data corruption analysis. busTRACE can help you determine exactly where data corruption was starting to be seen by the system.
		Perform software defect detection. busTRACE can help the software developer avoid common software bugs in their SCSI Pass Through, or SCSI Request Block, structures.
		Perform side-by-side I/O comparison. Show two captured I/Os side-by-side to see if there are any differences between the two.
		Transfer your captured CDBs into our scripting application.
		Utilize the busTRACE SDK to inject your own messages into the busTRACE capture buffer or to remotely control busTRACE.
		Capture I/O activity remotely (see below).
		Create busTRACE Capture Clients (see below).

NOTE: Some of the features listed above are only available under Windows 2000 (and above), including the x64 versions of Windows. Our user's manual describes those features that are not available under Windows Me.

Hardware Bus Analyzers
If you are wondering what some of the differences are between a hardware bus analyzer and busTRACE 6.0, a feature comparison is available in our user's manual.

Allow remote users to capture I/O activity on your computer As an owner of busTRACE 6.0, you can not only capture I/O activity on your local Windows PC, but also on one or more networked Windows PC. Using busTRACE capture clients, you can capture I/O activity on any Windows PC anywhere in the world.

busTRACE 6.0 uses TCP/IP to communicate between your Windows PC and the target Windows PC across your LAN. TCP/IP provides the greatest level of compatibility in communicating between the remote busTRACE server and the client busTRACE application.

Using busTRACE 6.0, you can sit in your office and capture and analyze I/O activity going on within the systems in your test lab (as one example). You can even capture I/O activity across multiple systems simultaneously.

If you want to capture I/O activity on one of your customer's PCs (not available on your LAN), you can provide them access to a busTRACE Capture Client. Capture Clients allow a remote user to capture, but not analyze, I/O activity on their Windows 2000 (and above) PC. They capture the I/O activity, save it to a standard busTRACE capture file, and e-mail you the file for detailed analysis within busTRACE 6.0.

Key Features
Click on the help icons below to jump to the appropriate section in our busTRACE 6.0 User's Manual (for additional information). View our screenshots to see busTRACE 6.0 in action.

		Capture I/O activity on one or more Windows PC connected to your LAN
		Use capture clients to capture I/O activity against customer's PC that are not available through your LAN

NOTE: The ability to capture remote I/O activity, or to run capture clients, is only supported under Windows 2000 (and above), including the x64 versions of Windows. Our user's manual describes those features that are not available under Windows Me.