APFS support enabled in High Sierra for cMP

[h9826790]

Last Firmware had at least one bug in it, I got a EFI. dump Notification, if I wanted to send it to Apple, I did and we got new Firmware again after just 1 week.

Can you please also send a bug report to Apple to tell them fix the TRIM issue, add NVMe and USB 3.0 boot into the firmware, also add native driver support for all new Nvidia cards? It seems they only listen to you, I submitted lots of report and they never fix anything in a week. The "to-fix list" of cMP is quite long actually, please ask Apple to fix all of them by next week.

Last but not least, There is at least one more bug in the 5,1 firmware. The 4,1 firmware can work with the Sonnet Tempo SSD PCIe card flawlessly, but the 5,1 firmware may hang the boot manager. Can you ask Apple to fix it as well? Million thanks in advance!

 

[LightBulbFun]

Last Firmware had at least one bug in it, I got a EFI. dump Notification, if I wanted to send it to Apple, I did and we got new Firmware again after just 1 week.

care to share what bug you found? I need to test if my USB bug is still there
(I wish apple would give a change log on this sort of stuff LOL)

I can confirm that I also got the firmware update on my flashed 4,1 and I was able to install it no problems it did the same *CLICK* Power off and reboot at 80 percent as last time btw

 

[netkas]

So.
Apfs driver for efi is embeded into corestorage container for apfs volume. Firmware of mac needs to be updated to be able to load this apfs drover from corestorage container.

I found they have added thos support to firmwares that got released alongside 10.12.4

Btw, apfs.efi is signed, to prevent things like thunderstrike(3rd party efi driver loading on recovery boot)

 

[haralds]

• Yes indeed, there's a new firmware upgrade coming with DB6.
  
  Again, the download of full 17A344b installer is required. It then asks for admin permission to install a new helper app
  
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  When allowed, the firmware upgrade runs just as before. And you'll get this
  View attachment 712962

  How odd they do not update this with the Appstore Updates. I have seen package installers downloaded into /Library/Updates, but they do not appear to be used. You cannot run them individually.
  

 

[PowerMac G4 MDD]

Just found out APFS conversion only available on "Internal" storage, that means all PCIe SSD, or SSD / HDD mounted on the a PCIe SATA III card cannot be converted to APFS.

I will now try to connect my backup HDD to one of the internal SATA port and then boot from it.

That's very unfortunate... I'd like to upgrade to APFS, but my main boot drive is a Samsung XP941 PCIe-SSD. I wonder if this will be fixed in the final version...?

 

[h9826790]

That's very unfortunate... I'd like to upgrade to APFS, but my main boot drive is a Samsung XP941 PCIe-SSD. I wonder if this will be fixed in the final version...?

At least we know that we can format it to APFS and boot from it at this moment. Of course, "convert" will be much easier, but at least the "external" SSD won't be unbootable.

 

[PowerMac G4 MDD]

At least we know that we can format it to APFS and boot from it at this moment. Of course, "convert" will be much easier, but at least the "external" SSD won't be unbootable.

Yeah, I read more and noticed that. However, I hope TRIM support gets added, and I hope someone can notify Apple about allowing these Macs to boot from NVMe drives. AHCI PCIe-based SSDs are few and expensive. I was lucky to get my 256GB 941 used for $110.
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BTW, do you think that the RX Vegas will be supported in classic Mac Pros? I wonder if I get one of those instead of the RX 580 that another user here recommended I get to replace my GTX 1060.

 

[haralds]

I had to install from a standard SATA location with the full installer to upgrade the firmware, my SSD on a PCIe card could not do the firmware upgrade. It started but just exited.
APFS is working with trim on all SSD dives, but I still have the Disk Sensei Trim Enabler running, which might be doing it.

 

[flowrider]

Yes indeed, there's a new firmware upgrade coming with DB6.

Again, the download of full 17A344b installer is required. It then asks for admin permission to install a new helper app

View attachment 712964

When allowed, the firmware upgrade runs just as before. And you'll get this
View attachment 712962

Just downloaded the PB, the new firmware is in it. As you reported MP51.0084.B00. I'm still on 10.12.6 because of my GPU.



Lou

 

[Squuiid]

That's very unfortunate... I'd like to upgrade to APFS, but my main boot drive is a Samsung XP941 PCIe-SSD. I wonder if this will be fixed in the final version...?

This is no longer the case since DP5.
I have an SM951, with no other drives installed, and it converted to APFS just fine.

 

[frou]

BTW, do you think that the RX Vegas will be supported in classic Mac Pros?

they are probably too power-hungry to run off 2x 6pin connectors.

 

[PowerMac G4 MDD]

they are probably too power-hungry to run off 2x 6pin connectors.

Yeah, after seeing the specs, I'm sure you're correct. This is kind of annoying, because it's a good GPU for the price and will have great OSX support (since it's going in the iMac Pro).

 

[owbp]

Yeah, after seeing the specs, I'm sure you're correct. This is kind of annoying, because it's a good GPU for the price and will have great OSX support (since it's going in the iMac Pro).

I'm quite sure that there will be Vega BIOS editor in which you could downclock and undervolt GPU in Windows and use it happily with two 6 pin connectors.
There is also pixlas mod for "hardware" guys

 

[weckart]

I updated mine with the new firmware and it still doesn't solve the lack of converting to APFS on any of my drives without formatting. It's a fail for me.

 

[Squuiid]

I updated mine with the new firmware and it still doesn't solve the lack of converting to APFS on any of my drives without formatting. It's a fail for me.

Weird, what drives do you have installed?

 

[weckart]

Weird, what drives do you have installed?

A mix of SATA spinners and SSDs; all internal. Nothing unusual. Feedback has gone to Apple. Hopefully I should get a corrected firmware within a week.

 

[Squuiid]

Hopefully I should get a corrected firmware within a week.

LOL

 

[justperry]

Can you please also send a bug report to Apple to tell them fix the TRIM issue, add NVMe and USB 3.0 boot into the firmware, also add native driver support for all new Nvidia cards? It seems they only listen to you, I submitted lots of report and they never fix anything in a week. The "to-fix list" of cMP is quite long actually, please ask Apple to fix all of them by next week.

Last but not least, There is at least one more bug in the 5,1 firmware. The 4,1 firmware can work with the Sonnet Tempo SSD PCIe card flawlessly, but the 5,1 firmware may hang the boot manager. Can you ask Apple to fix it as well? Million thanks in advance!

I literally spilled my coffee after reading this, you sir won the internet today.

care to share what bug you found? I need to test if my USB bug is still there
(I wish apple would give a change log on this sort of stuff LOL)

I can confirm that I also got the firmware update on my flashed 4,1 and I was able to install it no problems it did the same *CLICK* Power off and reboot at 80 percent as last time btw

I got notification, see below, as you can see there's an EFIcheck.dump file, it's all gibberish even when I open it with a hex editor.

 

[haralds]

I had to install from a standard SATA location with the full installer to upgrade the firmware, my SSD on a PCIe card could not do the firmware upgrade. It started but just exited.
APFS is working with trim on all SSD dives, but I still have the Disk Sensei Trim Enabler running, which might be doing it.

Just to confirm:
- I turned off Disk Sensei and confirmed, it removed its Trimenabler KEXT
- I did the sudo trimforce command and rebooted
--> NO TRIM
- I reenabled Disk Sensei and rebooted
--> TRIM IS BACK

 

[LightBulbFun]

I literally spilled my coffee after reading this, you sir won the internet today.



I got notification, see below, as you can see there's an EFIcheck.dump file, it's all gibberish even when I open it with a hex editor.

View attachment 713077

im curious where did you find that dump, do you have a path to where i might find it on my own system? also what does "show report" show? do you have a screen shot?

I also noticed that the picture, shows firmware of a MBP9,1 (2012 non retina MacBook Pro 15 inch), not a Mac Pro 5,1...

 

[Demigod Mac]

Now in the MP51.0084.B00 club. Any idea what this revision changed?
(Hoping this won't be routine until HS is released...!)

 

[frou]

(Hoping this won't be routine until HS is released...!)

We're most likely in the final period during which the cMP hardware will get any attention, so I hope they refine the firmware many times before High Sierra is released!

 

[Draeconis]

Can you please also send a bug report to Apple to tell them fix the TRIM issue, add NVMe and USB 3.0 boot into the firmware, also add native driver support for all new Nvidia cards? It seems they only listen to you, I submitted lots of report and they never fix anything in a week. The "to-fix list" of cMP is quite long actually, please ask Apple to fix all of them by next week.

Last but not least, There is at least one more bug in the 5,1 firmware. The 4,1 firmware can work with the Sonnet Tempo SSD PCIe card flawlessly, but the 5,1 firmware may hang the boot manager. Can you ask Apple to fix it as well? Million thanks in advance!

I'm gonna assume this is a joke

 

[h9826790]

I'm gonna assume this is a joke

Of course, but still worth a try, just in case Apple really listen to him, haha

 

[Daze513]

OK so about APFS, I have installed the latest DP6, ran Disk Sensei to get trim kext in place, then ran Trimforce. Right now i have the latest build, the latest firmware, and trim on my samsung SSD.

However, it will not let me convert my SSD to apfs. I have tried via an install usb, via recovery, and via disk utility in the actual os. None of them give me the option to convert.

Any ideas that can help me?