0e21:0500 iAudio M3

Cowon Systems, Inc.

Vendor ID
0e21
Product ID
0500
Combined
0e21:0500
Decimal
3617:1280

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a iAudio M3 manufactured by Cowon Systems, Inc.. The vendor ID 0e21 is registered to Cowon Systems, Inc. with the USB Implementers Forum, and 0500 is the product ID that Cowon Systems, Inc. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 0e21:0500 Cowon Systems, Inc. iAudio M3.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0e21:0500 Cowon Systems, Inc. iAudio M3

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 0e21:0500, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 0e21:0500. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=0e21, idProduct=0500.

Windows

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

USB\VID_0E21&PID_0500
USB\VID_0E21&PID_0500&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_0E21&PID_0500"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    iAudio M3:
      Product ID: 0x0500
      Vendor ID: 0x0e21  (Cowon Systems, 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:

0e21  Cowon Systems, Inc.
	0500  iAudio M3

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