1058:071a — My Passport Essential (WDBAAA) (Western Digital Technologies, Inc.)

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a My Passport Essential (WDBAAA) manufactured by Western Digital Technologies, Inc.. The vendor ID 1058 is registered to Western Digital Technologies, Inc. with the USB Implementers Forum, and 071a is the product ID that Western Digital Technologies, Inc. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 1058:071a Western Digital Technologies, Inc. My Passport Essential (WDBAAA).

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1058:071a Western Digital Technologies, Inc. My Passport Essential (WDBAAA)

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 1058:071a, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 1058:071a. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=1058, idProduct=071a.

Windows

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

USB\VID_1058&PID_071A
USB\VID_1058&PID_071A&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_1058&PID_071A"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    My Passport Essential (WDBAAA):
      Product ID: 0x071a
      Vendor ID: 0x1058  (Western Digital Technologies, 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:

1058  Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
	071a  My Passport Essential (WDBAAA)

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