“He just sent me a refund telling me that he was contacted by gigabytes lawyers.” Then according to one of his customers on the Mac Rumours thread, DSM2 had refunded their money for a Gigabyte card… There are no more cards under NDA available.”
#Mac pro 5.1 thunderbolt card how to
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. Neither my team nor I can run it permanently. We can’t keep giving support, we all have wives, kids, work. 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? Need because the MacPro 5.1 was never designed for Thunderbolt.
#Mac pro 5.1 thunderbolt card install
So that this disaster can be avoided, we make use of OpenCore.Ī) because it fixes the problem regarding EFIī) improves our system in the long run and allows to install newer versions without any additional patchesĬ) also allows us to inject SSDTs into the system, which is what we need in terms of Thunderbolt hotplug. On the old Apple computers the EFI was a pure disaster. It’s not just installing a card and everything runs without you having to do anything. “Well, not everyone can have the same level of technical knowledge. Create Pro asked for DSM2 for comment about his cards… It turns out that DSM2 wasn’t prepared to lose his intellectual property by just selling modified Titan Ridge card, he would only sell them if you signed an NDA agreeing not to share the firmware he had developed to make this work. There is also a thread on the Mac Rumours forum, which is in English. You may recall we posted an article back in March 2019 entitled Mac Pro 5,1 Cheese-grater With Thunderbolt - The Impossible Is Now Possible in which we showed, with the help of Create Pro that it was possible to use a Gigabyte GC-Titan Ridge Thunderbolt Card with the caveat that you had to boot the Mac Pro into Windows 10 to load the Windows drivers before rebooting in the macOS to continue working.Ĭreate Pro then 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. It is turning out to be a challenge to implement, but we continue to update this article as new information becomes available.
Back in late February 2020, we heard that there a solution has been found, which enables MacPro Cheese-grater owners to install a Titan Ridge Thunderbolt 3 card into a Mac Pro 5,1 and to be able to use Thunderbolt 3 in macOS.
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