0480:0212 — Toshiba Canvio Connect II 500GB Portable Hard Drive
Toshiba America Inc
- Vendor ID
- 0480
- Product ID
- 0212
- Combined
- 0480:0212
- Decimal
- 1152:530
What is this device?
This is the USB identifier for a Toshiba Canvio Connect II 500GB Portable Hard Drive manufactured by Toshiba America Inc. The vendor ID 0480 is registered to Toshiba America Inc with the USB Implementers Forum, and 0212 is the product ID that Toshiba America Inc assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 0480:0212 Toshiba America Inc Toshiba Canvio Connect II 500GB Portable Hard Drive.
How to identify it on your system
Linux
$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0480:0212 Toshiba America Inc Toshiba Canvio Connect II 500GB Portable Hard Drive
You can filter directly with lsusb -d 0480:0212, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 0480:0212. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=0480, idProduct=0212.
Windows
In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:
USB\VID_0480&PID_0212 USB\VID_0480&PID_0212&REV_0100
From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_0480&PID_0212"
macOS
$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
Toshiba Canvio Connect II 500GB Portable Hard Drive:
Product ID: 0x0212
Vendor ID: 0x0480 (Toshiba America Inc)Driver help
Having driver issues with this device? Most USB devices are handled by a generic class driver; if yours shows up as an unknown device, confirm the ID above first, then check the manufacturer's downloads page.
Raw usb.ids entry
The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:
0480 Toshiba America Inc 0212 Toshiba Canvio Connect II 500GB Portable Hard Drive