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Titan Ridge macOS Firmware Release: Download Now
Titan Ridge macOS Firmware Release: Download Now
- Mac Pro 5.1 2010 Upgrades
- Mac 5.1 Firmware Update
- Mac Pro 2009 Firmware Upgrade
- 2009 Mac Pro Firmware Update
- Firmware Update Macbook Pro
Mac Pro users have been searching for thunderbolt solutions for the Mac Pro 5,1 for years now, and it seems one talented developer has found a solution. A few days ago we discovered a conversation on a German Hackintosh forum discussing a custom firmware one member DSM2 had created allowing for native compatibility for the Titan Ridge card in macOS.
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Excitedly we started using google translate to read the forum comments, specifically those from the developer. Originally DSM2 decided that he wasn’t going to release the firmware for the card due to profiteers.
When we were asked for the ROM, we immediately said that we should not distribute the ROM but that interested parties should send their cards to us and we would then flash these cards.
But the people suddenly only had their wallets in their heads and wrote publicly that one should buy a flashed card and then extract the firmware and distribute it commercially.
If someone should see money for it, then certainly not any people who have contributed nothing to it or had nothing at all to do with the development.
- – DSM2
A few months ago we posted a video with Pro Tools expert on Thunderbolt in a Mac Pro 5,1 based off the solution from Joevt which required a warm boot from windows. Unless you’re desperate for Thunderbolt, this just wasn’t something we recommended as the setup required was clunky at best and every time you booted you’d need to go via windows.
DSM2 today followed up on his previous statement and is going release the firmware but he will only accept direct sales of his card with the flashed firmware if you sign a non-disclosure agreement as to protect his work.
Mac Pro 5.1 2010 Upgrades
We asked for DSM2 for comment about his cards:
Well, not everyone can have the same level of technical knowledge. It’s not just installing a card and everything runs without you having to do anything. On the old Apple computers the EFI was a pure disaster. So that this disaster can be avoided, we make use of OpenCore.
a) because it fixes the problem regarding EFI
b) improves our system in the long run and allows to install newer versions without any additional patches
c) also allows us to inject SSDTs into the system, which is what we need in terms of Thunderbolt hotplug.
Need because the MacPro 5.1 was never designed for Thunderbolt.
b) improves our system in the long run and allows to install newer versions without any additional patches
c) also allows us to inject SSDTs into the system, which is what we need in terms of Thunderbolt hotplug.
Need because the MacPro 5.1 was never designed for Thunderbolt.
If you have twenty people to support, that’s a lot of work, but what if you have 30 or 40 people or even more?
We can’t keep giving support, we all have wives, kids, work. Neither my team nor I can run it permanently.
There will be a How To Guide but still there will be people who will have questions and we cannot just take care of everything.
There are no more cards under NDA available.
- – DSM2
TL:DR – A developer has created a custom firmware for a Thunderbolt card but you must sign and NDA to purchase one.
Sources:
https://www.hackintosh-forum.de/forum/thread/46713-natives-thunderbolt3-an-jedem-rechner-no-release/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/testing-tb3-aic-with-mp-5-1.2143042/
https://www.hackintosh-forum.de/forum/thread/46713-natives-thunderbolt3-an-jedem-rechner-no-release/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/testing-tb3-aic-with-mp-5-1.2143042/
So, as many Mac Pro users have learned, Mojave requires the boot drive file system to be formatted as APFS and the installer converts it to such (want it or not). If you try to force any variation of HFS+ for the Mojave boot drive, no updates will ever be possible on this drive through the Software Update mechanisms.
With the boot drive being APFS, when you boot to WIN10, you lose the ability to switch back to macOS because neither BootCamp (for MP51) nor Windows provides APFS drivers to make this possible.
Yesterday (I Think), Apple updated it’s BootCamp software for the iMac Pro, and now it regained this functionality for iMac Pro, APFS/Win10. It works again. Great! Too bad Apple didn’t provide this update for MP51 drivers.
Mac 5.1 Firmware Update
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Mac Pro 2009 Firmware Upgrade
Well, let me fix that for you… ?
2009 Mac Pro Firmware Update
Below is a quick guide I put together that allows you to install BC 6.1 driver’s on an MP51/Win10 System. This should do the trick for you.
Firmware Update Macbook Pro
After Windows Legacy is installed;
- Install BC drivers for cMP 5,1
- Download brigadier-0.2.4.zip and extract the exe file.
- Open CMD as Administrator & navigate to the folder with brigadier.exe
- Execute (from command line) brigadier.exe -m iMac Pro1,1
- Wait for download to finish, this will be the BC6.1 drivers
- Navigate to the BootCamp/Drivers/Apple/
- Run the command msiexec /i bootcamp.msi
- Reboot when install is finished