0fca:8020 Blackberry Playbook (CD-Rom mode)

Research In Motion, Ltd.

Vendor ID
0fca
Product ID
8020
Combined
0fca:8020
Decimal
4042:32800

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a Blackberry Playbook (CD-Rom mode) manufactured by Research In Motion, Ltd.. The vendor ID 0fca is registered to Research In Motion, Ltd. with the USB Implementers Forum, and 8020 is the product ID that Research In Motion, Ltd. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 0fca:8020 Research In Motion, Ltd. Blackberry Playbook (CD-Rom mode).

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0fca:8020 Research In Motion, Ltd. Blackberry Playbook (CD-Rom mode)

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 0fca:8020, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 0fca:8020. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=0fca, idProduct=8020.

Windows

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

USB\VID_0FCA&PID_8020
USB\VID_0FCA&PID_8020&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_0FCA&PID_8020"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    Blackberry Playbook (CD-Rom mode):
      Product ID: 0x8020
      Vendor ID: 0x0fca  (Research In Motion, Ltd.)

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:

0fca  Research In Motion, Ltd.
	8020  Blackberry Playbook (CD-Rom mode)

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