The final version is 17A365
Anyway, for others info. The PCI page is fixed for non flashed GPU (even no HDMI audio installed). It's too bad that the HDMI audio work natively during Beta and Apple intentionally took it away.
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The final version is 17A365
Anyway, for others info. The PCI page is fixed for non flashed GPU (even no HDMI audio installed). It's too bad that the HDMI audio work natively during Beta and Apple intentionally took it away.
HI, is anyone else having any issues upgrading the 2012 Mac Pro?
I wiped my Samsung 850 EVO SSD, went to install High Sierra and it told me to shut down the machine and perform the update as it written here.
The problem is that when I went to do that nothing happened and it simply boots back into my Install USB.
I now have no OS, since I wiped Sierra and no updated Firmware...anyone who could help would be appreciated.
Regards
I wiped my Samsung 850 EVO SSD, went to install High Sierra and it told me to shut down the machine and perform the update as it written here.
The problem is that when I went to do that nothing happened and it simply boots back into my Install USB.
I now have no OS, since I wiped Sierra and no updated Firmware...anyone who could help would be appreciated.
Regards
Do you have an original Apple graphics card? It seems that without one of those, the firmware update will not apply and you will not be able to install High Sierra.
quick poke around in the installer shows that theres no new firmware update for the 5,1 in the public release, its the same firmware update that was introduced a few betas back
I'm still in painful process of converting my spinners back to HFS+ since Apple is mentioning that APFS require all flash storage and I don't want to risk losing my data even though the last public beta (GM candidate) is working great with APFS on system SSD and all spinners except RAID 0 that's on HFS+.
I've got a test iMac that's running a 7200rpm disk formatted as APFS. It installed the release version of 10.13 today and appears to be working fine. If you've got good backups, which you should have anyway, why not leave the disks as APFS?
I got backups, but at the moment they're all internal and some are APFS - just shows that I didn't have one issue with APFS since converting.
Thing is, the last sentence in High Sierra App Store page ("Apple File System requires all-flash internal storage") got me copying, converting and then copying back files the whole night... But, you're right, and I could've just removed HDD-s before starting installation...
No new firmware if you have the latest one from beta.
1) check if you have a Mac EFI graphic card
2) a theory that firmware cannot be upgraded via a USB drive. This is very possible indeed. In some case, the firmware cannot be updated because of HDD incompatibility (only incompatible to firmware update. The HDD itself works in normal situation).
Since you are now stuck. I suggest you boot into recovery partition. Install Sierra, do the OS upgrade inside Sierra but not a USB drive (I really don’t know why need a USB drive in cMP. Even you want a clean installation, recovery partition or boot from other hard drive is way much easier and safer).
Just read the MacWorld High Sierra review, and they said this...
"When you upgrade to High Sierra, the installer asks you if you want to upgrade to APFS, if you’re using a Mac with a SSD."
Can anyone confirm this? I was under the impression that if the installer sees an SSD, it converts it to APFS no questions asked, no choice in the matter.
"When you upgrade to High Sierra, the installer asks you if you want to upgrade to APFS, if you’re using a Mac with a SSD."
Can anyone confirm this? I was under the impression that if the installer sees an SSD, it converts it to APFS no questions asked, no choice in the matter.
One more extra info. If TRIM was enabled before OS upgrade. TRIM will stays there, no need to re-enable it after OS upgrade or APFS conversion.
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That's for old beta. This option was removed long ago.
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That's for old beta. This option was removed long ago.
How does this whole apfs thing work. Does it really make any difference to the way files are stored on drives that aren't ssd/flash.
[doublepost=1506406718][/doublepost]This is what apple released about the whole thing a couple of days ago
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT208018
[doublepost=1506406718][/doublepost]This is what apple released about the whole thing a couple of days ago
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT208018
I just downloaded high sierra, did the firmware update, and installed high sierra, all with a spinner drive.
I have a 4,1 flashed to 5,1 Mac Pro with 3 HD spinners and one SSD. GPU wise, I have a GT120 and 980Ti. I plan to take out the 980Ti and leave the gt120 to install High Sierra. If I take out the 3 spinner drives and only leave the SSD for a clean install, will High Sierra still convert the 3 HD spinners to the new file system after the High Sierra installation has already completed? What if I have a second SSD with El Capitan on it and I want to use it along with High Sierra, will High Sierra convert this 2nd SSD to new file system or leave it alone?
I understand that but it does talk about dealing with apfs ssd's and hfs+ hdd's. Which is something I thought may be of interest to people.
Indeed. And here are my questions. Mac Pro 2009 flashed to 5.1 firmware, running with two 3.46gHz CPUs. Main boot drive is SSD with 4 partitions (El Capitan/Sierra/Maverick/Data) connected via a Caldigit pcie card. 4 spinners in the regular bays - one Raid0 and two singles.
If I go for High Sierra, what happens to the other partitions on my boot drive?
Also, but it might not be the right thread, what happens to a 4.1->5.1 Mac Pro with the firmware update? It works fine? After all, the Netkas firmware was NOT Apple signed.
Netkas didn’t provide any firmware. He just provide a tool for us to install the Apple signed 5,1 firmware on our 4,1.
The High Sierra firmware update works fine on a flashed 5,1.
The installer won’t touch your HDD, but just convert the OS SSD to APFS (and install the OS of course).
Thanks for the clarification on the Netkas tool, I got mixed up.
And you think that an APFS partition can coexist with HFS+ partitions on the same SSD? No issue with the MBR (or whatever it's called in HFS land)?
I had it coexist on same HDD with NTFS partition, so I don't see why it would be any different in your case... But I haven't tried it on SSD.
