1ca1:18ab — SATA bridge
Symwave
- Vendor ID
- 1ca1
- Product ID
- 18ab
- Combined
- 1ca1:18ab
- Decimal
- 7329:6315
What is this device?
This is the USB identifier for a SATA bridge manufactured by Symwave. The vendor ID 1ca1 is registered to Symwave with the USB Implementers Forum, and 18ab is the product ID that Symwave assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 1ca1:18ab Symwave SATA bridge.
How to identify it on your system
Linux
$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1ca1:18ab Symwave SATA bridge
You can filter directly with lsusb -d 1ca1:18ab, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 1ca1:18ab. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=1ca1, idProduct=18ab.
Windows
In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:
USB\VID_1CA1&PID_18AB USB\VID_1CA1&PID_18AB&REV_0100
From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_1CA1&PID_18AB"
macOS
$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
SATA bridge:
Product ID: 0x18ab
Vendor ID: 0x1ca1 (Symwave)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:
1ca1 Symwave 18ab SATA bridge