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NVMe on MacPro 3.1 Success! (sort of...)
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yes, sorry, mis-read the original post.How do you gonna install 140.0.0.0.0 into a 2008 Mac Pro?
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Yes, read this threads:
10.13 macOS High Sierra (10.13) Unsupported Macs Thread
10.14 macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread
Not with unsupported Macs. Based into your questioning, seems you are way over your head. Maybe it's time to study what is your best course of action.
PCIe 3.0 blades run at PCIe 1.1 into MP3,1. Do a search here and find how people enable/change it to PCIe 2.0 with pcietools.
You will need to do it every power-on/reboot unless you do it via daemon.
I’ve tried various times using various versions of setpci to try to change card speed for any pcie card I have. It seems to never be able to change from rev 1.1 on my 3,1. SIP is off, pci debug value is set (not sure off top of my head if it’s in nvram or in the boot.plist file as I’m mobile right now).
Do you have ideas or your own walkthrough / process to take to do so?
When I bricked my 4,1>5,1 around September, I used the my 3,1 for a week or so and back then I used the same recipe that people had been using here and worked for my PCIe 3.0 x4 blades. I don’t have a write up.
Btw, I know that some blades that are PCIe 3.0 but not x4, seems you can’t enable it to work as PCIe 2.0 with a MP3,1.
I have PCIx speed 5.0 GT / s. How do I find PCIe 2.0 MP3,1?
https://www.daemon-tools.cc
Sorry if you are tired...
https://www.daemon-tools.cc
Sorry if you are tired...
no, I have a 2.5 GT / s slot 3. slot 1 and 2 are occupied. how do I increase the speed of slot 3?
[doublepost=1548568555][/doublepost]I take instruction https://docs.google.com
can't enter recovery mode "command + R" in Mojave
[doublepost=1548568622][/doublepost]no reaction to "command + R"
I cannot execute the instruction
[doublepost=1548569677][/doublepost]found the address of the slot No. 3 (sudo ./fast.sh 03:00.3)
"Mac-Pro-Evgenij:sbin evgenij$ sudo ./lspci
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK104 [GeForce GTX 680] (rev a1)
02:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GK104 HDMI Audio Controller (rev a1)
03:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express Upstream Port (rev 01)
03:00.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express to PCI-X Bridge (rev 01)
04:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express Downstream Port E1 (rev 01)
04:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express Downstream Port E2 (rev 01)
04:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express Downstream Port E3 (rev 01)
06:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Silicon Motion, Inc. Device 2263 (rev 03)
07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 80003ES2LAN Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 01)
07:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 80003ES2LAN Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 01)
0b:00.0 PCI bridge: Texas Instruments XIO2213A/B/XIO2221 PCI Express to PCI Bridge [Cheetah Express]
0c:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments XIO2213A/B/XIO2221 IEEE-1394b OHCI Controller [Cheetah Express]
0d:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR93xx Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)"
sudo ./fast.sh 03:00.3) - error "sudo: ./fast.sh: command not found"
Where not rights?
[doublepost=1548568555][/doublepost]I take instruction https://docs.google.com
can't enter recovery mode "command + R" in Mojave
[doublepost=1548568622][/doublepost]no reaction to "command + R"
I cannot execute the instruction
[doublepost=1548569677][/doublepost]found the address of the slot No. 3 (sudo ./fast.sh 03:00.3)
"Mac-Pro-Evgenij:sbin evgenij$ sudo ./lspci
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK104 [GeForce GTX 680] (rev a1)
02:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GK104 HDMI Audio Controller (rev a1)
03:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express Upstream Port (rev 01)
03:00.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express to PCI-X Bridge (rev 01)
04:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express Downstream Port E1 (rev 01)
04:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express Downstream Port E2 (rev 01)
04:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express Downstream Port E3 (rev 01)
06:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Silicon Motion, Inc. Device 2263 (rev 03)
07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 80003ES2LAN Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 01)
07:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 80003ES2LAN Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 01)
0b:00.0 PCI bridge: Texas Instruments XIO2213A/B/XIO2221 PCI Express to PCI Bridge [Cheetah Express]
0c:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments XIO2213A/B/XIO2221 IEEE-1394b OHCI Controller [Cheetah Express]
0d:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR93xx Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)"
sudo ./fast.sh 03:00.3) - error "sudo: ./fast.sh: command not found"
Where not rights?
So I can simply use rEFIt on my MP 3,1 to boot NVMe drives without any patching bootrom?
it looks like more safely way to boot nvme on 3,1
nvme drives now are supported in those macs. Not sure about the 3,1 but you can also use an apple ssd from a macbook, in a pcie adapter 4x from ebay. That works well.