D-T Log OR CD-Rom activity monitor?

[badilator]

Operating System: na
Burning Software: na
Anti-virus Software: na
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I need a way to log wich sectors are read from a cd for debugging pourposes, so i thought that perhaps D-T may have the option to write down its activity.
I can make an image of the cd and mount it in D-T, that's not a problem.

If D-T does not have a log, is there a tool that can track/log/monitor what sectors are accessed on a cd-rom drive?

Thank you very much.

[DevX]

Yes, you can use BusHound or BusTrace.

[badilator]

Thank you very much, that was what i was looking. Only bushound has a trial version, so i tried it.
Starting a game protected with safedisc i've monitored this access to the alchol image i've done and mounted with D-T.

Device  Phase  Data                                                Description       Cmd.Phase.Ofs(rep)
------  -----  --------------------------------------------------  ----------------  ------------------
   5    CMD    00 00 00 00  00 00                                  TEST UNIT READY          1.1.0        
   5    SENSE  70 00 06 00  00 00 00 0a                            unit attention           1.2.0        
   5    CMD    00 00 00 00  00 00                                  TEST UNIT READY          2.1.0        
   5    OK                                                                                  2.2.0        
   5    CMD    43 02 00 00  00 00 00 03                            READ TOC/PMA             3.1.0        
   5    IN     00 12 01 01  00 14 01 00                            ........                 3.2.0        
   5    CMD    43 00 00 00  00 00 00 03                            READ TOC/PMA             4.1.0        
   5    IN     00 0a 01 01  00 14 01 00                            ........                 4.2.0        
   5    CMD    28 00 00 00  00 10 00 00                            READ                     5.1.0        
   5    IN     01 43 44 30  30 31 01 00                            .CD001..                 5.2.0        
   5    CMD    28 00 00 00  00 10 00 00                            READ                     6.1.0        
   5    IN     01 43 44 30  30 31 01 00                            .CD001..                 6.2.0        
   5    CMD    28 00 00 00  00 11 00 00                            READ                     7.1.0        
   5    IN     01 43 44 30  30 31 01 00                            .CD001..                 7.2.0        
   5    CMD    28 00 00 00  00 12 00 00                            READ                     8.1.0        
   5    IN     02 43 44 30  30 31 01 00                            .CD001..                 8.2.0        
   5    CMD    00 00 00 00  00 00                                  TEST UNIT READY          9.1.0        
   5    OK                                                                                  9.2.0        
   5    CMD    00 00 00 00  00 00                                  TEST UNIT READY         10.1.0        
   5    OK                                                                                 10.2.0        
   5    CMD    00 00 00 00  00 00                                  TEST UNIT READY         11.1.0        
   5    OK                                                                                 11.2.0        
   5    CMD    00 00 00 00  00 00                                  TEST UNIT READY         12.1.0        
   5    OK                                                                                 12.2.0        
   5    CMD    00 00 00 00  00 00                                  TEST UNIT READY         13.1.0        
   5    OK                                                                                 13.2.0        
   5    CMD    00 00 00 00  00 00                                  TEST UNIT READY         14.1.0        
   5    OK                                                                                 14.2.0        
   5    CMD    12 00 00 00  38 00                                  INQUIRY                 15.1.0        
   5    IN     05 80 02 02  20 00 00 10                            .... ...                15.2.0        
   5    CMD    00 00 00 00  00 00                                  TEST UNIT READY         16.1.0        
   5    OK                                                                                 16.2.0        
   5    CMD    00 00 00 00  00 00                                  TEST UNIT READY         17.1.0        
   5    OK                                                                                 17.2.0        
   5    CMD    00 00 00 00  00 00                                  TEST UNIT READY         18.1.0        
   5    OK                                                                                 18.2.0        
   5    CMD    5a 08 2a 00  00 00 00 08                            MODE SENSE              19.1.0        
   5    IN     00 20 00 00  00 00 00 00                            . ......                19.2.0        
   5    CMD    00 00 00 00  00 00                                  TEST UNIT READY         20.1.0        
   5    OK                                                                                 20.2.0

I think that the 4k trial limited buffer now is full and more data is accessed,
but for now i looked into the image (.mdf) and found the four accessed consecutive sectors, I guess...

00009300h: 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 00 00 02 16 01 ; .яяяяяяяяяя.....
00009310h: 01 43 44 30 30 31 01 00 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 ; .CD001..        

00009c30h: 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 00 00 02 17 01 ; .яяяяяяяяяя.....
00009c40h: 01 43 44 30 30 31 01 00 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 ; .CD001..        

0000a560h: 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 00 00 02 18 01 ; .яяяяяяяяяя.....
0000a570h: 02 43 44 30 30 31 01 00 00 20 00 20 00 20 00 20 ; .CD001... . . . 

0000ae90h: 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 00 00 02 19 01 ; .яяяяяяяяяя.....
0000aea0h: FF 43 44 30 30 31 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ; яCD001..........

QESTION1) I'm not able to relate the 4 CMD READ command (28 00 00 00 00 [10/10/11/12] 00 00) to the indexing of the image.
Well, at least there is the case that the byte before the last one of each first line is a decimal counter of the sector and the previous bytes are a sort of multiplier starting from 02 at the begining of the image... so the hexadecimal [10/10/11/12] in the CMD are referring in some way to sectors [16/16/17/18] but with no indication of the multiplier byte [02]. Can you give me a tip on this?


Then i tried to look forward, I idendified sectors of repetitive patterns, when they ended i left some blank sectors (they seems to be needed) and cut the .mdf image.
So i have a pair of a mds/mdf file with the mdf cut just after 2 MB (instead of 700 MB).

Mounting those file let the game start like the original and like the full image.

Before I said that "4k trial limited buffer now is full" becase there is a lot of sectors between dhe CD001 sectors and the cut that are needed or the game crush before starting. So probably i can't get the full list of sectors accessed due to the trial limitation, but this is a guess, I really do not know what i m doing... by the way the cropped image works if the cut is after the sector :

00243f60h: 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 00 00 15 35 01 ; .яяяяяяяяяя...5.

(perhaps even some sectors earlier but not many)


CONCLUSION1:
Spending 800 or 1100 $ for a tool just for seeing wich sectors are accessed is not an option, do you know of any other tool?

CONCLUSION2:
I was wandering if an option could be implemented in D-T to dump to file wich sectors are read.
Someting like a "start/stop logging". In that way everyone, even me, can make a log parser, look for the highest sector, and crop the image just to hold the game launching sequence of bytes.
(One of the main use of D-T, in my opinion, is to run your original game without bothering looking for the cd, so I think that the option to store on the hd only what is really needed goes well with the D-T idea)

If that could be done with a plug-in, i could try to look into it, even if I have no experience in ring0/device programming.
If you have some sort of sdk/plug in template/source code of other plug in let me know.

I think that game jack does something like this, but hey, with D-T you could do it better and cheaper.

Do you think all this is crap? Or should be moved in features request forum?

In any case, thank you for D-T, is a great tool.

[LocutusofBorg]

we think about your suggestion. Maybe we implement such function for
one of the later releases. For further discussion you can also mail us directly
(venom386@daemon-tools.cc or locutus@daemon-tools.cc)