1058:0740 — My Passport Essential (WDBACY)

This is the USB identifier for a My Passport Essential (WDBACY) manufactured by Western Digital Technologies, Inc.. The vendor ID 1058 is registered to Western Digital Technologies, Inc. with the USB Implementers Forum, and 0740 is the product ID that Western Digital Technologies, Inc. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 1058:0740 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. My Passport Essential (WDBACY).

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1058:0740 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. My Passport Essential (WDBACY)

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 1058:0740, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 1058:0740. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=1058, idProduct=0740.

Windows

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

USB\VID_1058&PID_0740
USB\VID_1058&PID_0740&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_1058&PID_0740"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    My Passport Essential (WDBACY):
      Product ID: 0x0740
      Vendor ID: 0x1058  (Western Digital Technologies, Inc.)

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.

The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:

1058  Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
	0740  My Passport Essential (WDBACY)

• 1058:071a My Passport Essential (WDBAAA)
• 1058:071d My Passport Studio (WDBALG)
• 1058:0730 My Passport Essential (WDBACY)
• 1058:0732 My Passport Essential SE (WDBGYS)
• 1058:0741 My Passport Ultra
• 1058:0742 My Passport Essential SE (WDBGYS)
• 1058:0748 My Passport (WDBKXH, WDBY8L)
• 1058:07a8 My Passport (WDBBEP), My Passport for Mac (WDBLUZ)

See all 77 devices from Western Digital Technologies, Inc. →