0480:a208 — Canvio Basics 2TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive

Toshiba America Inc

Vendor ID: 0480
Product ID: a208
Combined: 0480:a208
Decimal: 1152:41480

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a Canvio Basics 2TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive manufactured by Toshiba America Inc. The vendor ID 0480 is registered to Toshiba America Inc with the USB Implementers Forum, and a208 is the product ID that Toshiba America Inc assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 0480:a208 Toshiba America Inc Canvio Basics 2TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0480:a208 Toshiba America Inc Canvio Basics 2TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 0480:a208, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 0480:a208. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=0480, idProduct=a208.

Windows

In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:

USB\VID_0480&PID_A208
USB\VID_0480&PID_A208&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_0480&PID_A208"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    Canvio Basics 2TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive:
      Product ID: 0xa208
      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
	a208  Canvio Basics 2TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive

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