0bc2:ab21 — Backup Plus Slim

Seagate RSS LLC

Vendor ID: 0bc2
Product ID: ab21
Combined: 0bc2:ab21
Decimal: 3010:43809

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a Backup Plus Slim manufactured by Seagate RSS LLC. The vendor ID 0bc2 is registered to Seagate RSS LLC with the USB Implementers Forum, and ab21 is the product ID that Seagate RSS LLC assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 0bc2:ab21 Seagate RSS LLC Backup Plus Slim.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bc2:ab21 Seagate RSS LLC Backup Plus Slim

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 0bc2:ab21, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 0bc2:ab21. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=0bc2, idProduct=ab21.

Windows

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

USB\VID_0BC2&PID_AB21
USB\VID_0BC2&PID_AB21&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_0BC2&PID_AB21"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    Backup Plus Slim:
      Product ID: 0xab21
      Vendor ID: 0x0bc2  (Seagate RSS LLC)

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:

0bc2  Seagate RSS LLC
	ab21  Backup Plus Slim

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