13fd:1840 — INIC-1608 SATA bridge
Initio Corporation
- Vendor ID
- 13fd
- Product ID
- 1840
- Combined
- 13fd:1840
- Decimal
- 5117:6208
What is this device?
This is the USB identifier for a INIC-1608 SATA bridge manufactured by Initio Corporation. The vendor ID 13fd is registered to Initio Corporation with the USB Implementers Forum, and 1840 is the product ID that Initio Corporation assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 13fd:1840 Initio Corporation INIC-1608 SATA bridge.
How to identify it on your system
Linux
$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 13fd:1840 Initio Corporation INIC-1608 SATA bridge
You can filter directly with lsusb -d 13fd:1840, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 13fd:1840. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=13fd, idProduct=1840.
Windows
In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:
USB\VID_13FD&PID_1840 USB\VID_13FD&PID_1840&REV_0100
From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_13FD&PID_1840"
macOS
$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
INIC-1608 SATA bridge:
Product ID: 0x1840
Vendor ID: 0x13fd (Initio Corporation)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:
13fd Initio Corporation 1840 INIC-1608 SATA bridge