Hi all,
I'm not a specialist about Mac Pro 5,1 upgrade and customisation, but I recently dived into this.
I'm a sound editor and two studios where I work and don't use these anymore gave me two Mac Pro 5,1, so I could blend them and build a system for music production, at home.
I spent days and nights on this forum and on the Defintive Guide, so thanks everyone for all the work you put into this. I almost succeed and like to think I'm almost done.
I have a system with 2x 6 Cores, 32Go of RAM and a RX 580.
I bought a Sonnet M2 4x4 PCIe card, and 4 Samsung EVO+ 500Go NVME disks. They have the 2B2QEXM7 firmware.
My system firmware is 144.0.0.0.0, and I'm typing from this computer right now, running Monterey thanks to OCLP.
I also have some SSDs and HDD on the SATA bays, and a 3.0 USB PCIe card.
I'm booting MacOS from one of the Samsung NVMEs, and made a RAID 0 with the others 3 ones to work on the fastest disk possible.
After installing some software and setting everything up, I tried to start a new song with a friend on Ableton last week. Here are the two last problems I still can't solve myself and stopped me from working :
- I encountered odd freezes several times, especially while doing some music on Ableton Live. Sometimes, opening a plug in or rendering a track, or maybe at other occasions, I don't remember everything, the computer started to have a hard time making Ableton run correctly, and then completely freezed. I tried at some point to let some time pass to see if it would come back to life, but every time this happens I'm obliged to shut down the Mac manually.
When this happen, the Mac will almost always not be able to boot again, and usually NVRAM reset will unblock the situation and help me turn on the computer again.
- The other problem I encountered is that when I started the session and wanted to save it for the first time, I tried to choose my RAID 0 NVME disk but Ableton would crash anytime I would try to save there. It can open sessions from there still.
I was obliged to save on the desktop (meaning the booting disk) to be able to save my work.
I kind of don't understand where I could look into to solve this problem. I know NVME boot is not native supported on these machines but if I understood everything correctly, my firmware is not the problem? Should I forgot this idea and just boot from a SATA SSD?
I hope somebody can help me just a bit ! Sorry for the long message !
Cheers everybody,
Alex
I'm not a specialist about Mac Pro 5,1 upgrade and customisation, but I recently dived into this.
I'm a sound editor and two studios where I work and don't use these anymore gave me two Mac Pro 5,1, so I could blend them and build a system for music production, at home.
I spent days and nights on this forum and on the Defintive Guide, so thanks everyone for all the work you put into this. I almost succeed and like to think I'm almost done.
I have a system with 2x 6 Cores, 32Go of RAM and a RX 580.
I bought a Sonnet M2 4x4 PCIe card, and 4 Samsung EVO+ 500Go NVME disks. They have the 2B2QEXM7 firmware.
My system firmware is 144.0.0.0.0, and I'm typing from this computer right now, running Monterey thanks to OCLP.
I also have some SSDs and HDD on the SATA bays, and a 3.0 USB PCIe card.
I'm booting MacOS from one of the Samsung NVMEs, and made a RAID 0 with the others 3 ones to work on the fastest disk possible.
After installing some software and setting everything up, I tried to start a new song with a friend on Ableton last week. Here are the two last problems I still can't solve myself and stopped me from working :
- I encountered odd freezes several times, especially while doing some music on Ableton Live. Sometimes, opening a plug in or rendering a track, or maybe at other occasions, I don't remember everything, the computer started to have a hard time making Ableton run correctly, and then completely freezed. I tried at some point to let some time pass to see if it would come back to life, but every time this happens I'm obliged to shut down the Mac manually.
When this happen, the Mac will almost always not be able to boot again, and usually NVRAM reset will unblock the situation and help me turn on the computer again.
- The other problem I encountered is that when I started the session and wanted to save it for the first time, I tried to choose my RAID 0 NVME disk but Ableton would crash anytime I would try to save there. It can open sessions from there still.
I was obliged to save on the desktop (meaning the booting disk) to be able to save my work.
I kind of don't understand where I could look into to solve this problem. I know NVME boot is not native supported on these machines but if I understood everything correctly, my firmware is not the problem? Should I forgot this idea and just boot from a SATA SSD?
I hope somebody can help me just a bit ! Sorry for the long message !
Cheers everybody,
Alex
