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How macOS Sierra handle Mac Pro 4,1 and 5,1? Interesting!!

Two Cards installed in Mac Pro, FASTA 6GU3 Pro and FASTA 6GU3.

I did the Sierra upgrade directly from Mountain Lion. No Problems with FASTA 6GU3 Pro.

Deinstalled first before upgrading the drivers of the older FASTA 6GU3 (Non-Pro), they are known to cause Kernel Panic. However eSATA still functionable on the old FASTA 6GU3, only USB is dead.
 
I have upgraded my 4,1 to 5,1 and installed Sierra. Now I'm running into sleep issues. After a reboot it works for one or two days, then at some point it doesn't go to sleep anymore, and cannot be put to sleep manually, either.

After a reboot it works again for some time. Pmset assertions gives me the same output whether it works or not.

Has anybody run into these issues?

Thanks!
 
Taipan said:
I have upgraded my 4,1 to 5,1 and installed Sierra. Now I'm running into sleep issues. After a reboot it works for one or two days, then at some point it doesn't go to sleep anymore, and cannot be put to sleep manually, either.

After a reboot it works again for some time. Pmset assertions gives me the same output whether it works or not.

Has anybody run into these issues?

Thanks!
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I have the same issue. My 4,1 flashed to 5,1 was sleeping fine in El Capitan after the last little update. Now I am back to it not sleeping. I can put it to sleep but it wakes back up. Nothing has changed but upgrading to Sierra. Hopefully Apple will issue an update that fixes it???
 
uh oh, I have the Broadcomm card. Does that mean I will lose bluetooth and wifi if I update?

If so, what is a good replacement card? I am thinking to mod my bluetooth antenna at the same time as replacing the card if it needs to be changed so that I don't have to deal with bad bluetooth signals any longer.
 
lclev said:
I have the same issue. My 4,1 flashed to 5,1 was sleeping fine in El Capitan after the last little update. Now I am back to it not sleeping. I can put it to sleep but it wakes back up. Nothing has changed but upgrading to Sierra. Hopefully Apple will issue an update that fixes it???
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I was having some sleep issues on my 4,1 as well, however, SMC reset and PRAM did the trick. Sleeping fine now...strange indeed.
 
Yes, I did a SMC reset and it seems to have fixed the issue - hopefully for good...
 
I'm a flashed 4,1 to 5,1 on Sierra with no problems so far.

Interestingly, even though we're 5,1 flashed it says "Mac 2009" not "Mac 2010" anymore in the system info window.

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thepawn said:
I'm a flashed 4,1 to 5,1 on Sierra with no problems so far.

Interestingly, even though we're 5,1 flashed it says "Mac 2009" not "Mac 2010" anymore in the system info window.

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It never did say"2010" did it? That doesn't change but the "model identifier" in the System Report>Hardware will say Mac Pro 5,1.
 
Upgraded my backup boot drive to Sierra from El Capitan on my 2009 5,1. I still have WIFI, basic Bluetooth and it sleeps. My aging audio interface is not recognized but it also had issues with El Capitan. My Korg nanoKONTROL 2 does work with Logic.

WIFI
Card Type: AirPort Extreme (0x14E4, 0x8E)
Firmware Version: Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.106.98.100.24)

Bluetooth
Broadcom
Apple Bluetooth Software Version: 4.4.6f1 17910
 
fastlanephil said:
Upgraded my backup boot drive to Sierra from El Capitan on my 2009 5,1. I still have WIFI, basic Bluetooth and it sleeps. My aging audio interface is not recognized but it also had issues with El Capitan. My Korg nanoKONTROL 2 does work with Logic.

WIFI
Card Type: AirPort Extreme (0x14E4, 0x8E)
Firmware Version: Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.106.98.100.24)

Bluetooth
Broadcom
Apple Bluetooth Software Version: 4.4.6f1 17910
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Some of the Mac Pro 4,1 machines shipped with a Sierra incompatible Broadcomm card (but not the 5,1). That may be part of Apple's decision to exclude the 4,1. Fortunately some of the 4,1 machines shipped with the Atheros card (like mine) so we were spared the hassle of having to upgrade that card in order to run Sierra.
The Atheros wifi card + the 5,1 firmware update, is the easiest path to running Sierra on a Mac Pro 4,1.
 
howiest said:
Some of the Mac Pro 4,1 machines shipped with a Sierra incompatible Broadcomm card (but not the 5,1). That may be part of Apple's decision to exclude the 4,1. Fortunately some of the 4,1 machines shipped with the Atheros card (like mine) so we were spared the hassle of having to upgrade that card in order to run Sierra.
The Atheros wifi card + the 5,1 firmware update, is the easiest path to running Sierra on a Mac Pro 4,1.
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I think it's the other way around. Apple decide to exclude the 4,1. Therefore they don't care if there is no driver for some of the airport cards.
 
Aqua died years ago.

Apple since then declines in innovation and gives bits and bytes of "newness" on every release.
Apple even kills as we all know, working machines after few years of their release, just to force the customers to buy the "new and better" ones.

Windows 10 works perfect on my MBP, El Capitan too, didn't tried Sierra but won't even bother...
Apple is transforming to pre-1997 era.
 
howiest said:
The NewerTech MAXPower eSATA/USB3 card is incompatible with Sierra. The drivers/kexts cause a kernel panic early in the boot cycle. This card works fine in any earlier version of OS X. This sucks because I really liked this card and it wasn't cheap.

I'm using a driverless NewerTech eSATA in it's place, but I intend on shopping around for a USB 3 replacement card that works in Sierra.
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So, are you talking about what they call the "Legacy" version of the card that requires a driver and is listed as compatible from 10.6 up to 10.8.2 (but which works even as late as 10.11.6 in my experience)? There's also a driverless version (which I believe only differs in its firmware, but OWC so far won't give us access to that) that's compatible with 10.8.3+. One benefit of the Legacy version is that it supports eSATA port multiplication, while the driverless one does not, at least according to the specs pages for each.

Fred
 
fhturner said:
So, are you talking about what they call the "Legacy" version of the card that requires a driver and is listed as compatible from 10.6 up to 10.8.2 (but which works even as late as 10.11.6 in my experience)? There's also a driverless version (which I believe only differs in its firmware, but OWC so far won't give us access to that) that's compatible with 10.8.3+. One benefit of the Legacy version is that it supports eSATA port multiplication, while the driverless one does not, at least according to the specs pages for each.

Fred
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Ya, I regret not buying the driverless one now. But I do have the MaxPower driverless eSATA card running in Sierra and it supports booting, so I'm not missing the USB 3 capability of the incompatible card all that much really.
 
rawweb said:
I was having some sleep issues on my 4,1 as well, however, SMC reset and PRAM did the trick. Sleeping fine now...strange indeed.
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Didn't help in my case, unfortunately. I thought I might have done something wrong and gave it a second try, but still doesn't work.
:-(
 
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