1518:0002 HDReye (before firmware loads)

Cheshire Engineering Corp.

Vendor ID
1518
Product ID
0002
Combined
1518:0002
Decimal
5400:2

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a HDReye (before firmware loads) manufactured by Cheshire Engineering Corp.. The vendor ID 1518 is registered to Cheshire Engineering Corp. with the USB Implementers Forum, and 0002 is the product ID that Cheshire Engineering Corp. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 1518:0002 Cheshire Engineering Corp. HDReye (before firmware loads).

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1518:0002 Cheshire Engineering Corp. HDReye (before firmware loads)

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 1518:0002, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 1518:0002. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=1518, idProduct=0002.

Windows

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

USB\VID_1518&PID_0002
USB\VID_1518&PID_0002&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_1518&PID_0002"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    HDReye (before firmware loads):
      Product ID: 0x0002
      Vendor ID: 0x1518  (Cheshire Engineering Corp.)

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:

1518  Cheshire Engineering Corp.
	0002  HDReye (before firmware loads)

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