8086:beef SCM Miniature Card Reader/Writer

Intel Corp.

Vendor ID
8086
Product ID
beef
Combined
8086:beef
Decimal
32902:48879

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a SCM Miniature Card Reader/Writer manufactured by Intel Corp.. The vendor ID 8086 is registered to Intel Corp. with the USB Implementers Forum, and beef is the product ID that Intel Corp. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 8086:beef Intel Corp. SCM Miniature Card Reader/Writer.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 8086:beef Intel Corp. SCM Miniature Card Reader/Writer

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 8086:beef, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 8086:beef. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=8086, idProduct=beef.

Windows

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

USB\VID_8086&PID_BEEF
USB\VID_8086&PID_BEEF&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_8086&PID_BEEF"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    SCM Miniature Card Reader/Writer:
      Product ID: 0xbeef
      Vendor ID: 0x8086  (Intel 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:

8086  Intel Corp.
	beef  SCM Miniature Card Reader/Writer

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