MP 1,1-5,1 testing TB3 AIC with MP 5,1

[flygbuss]

I know that the Antelope Audio Orion Studio Synergy Core is supposed to be compatible with OS Monterey and with M1 chips but I can not activate it. It does not show up in the launcher software. This is on a new 2021 16" M1 Pro MacBook. It's connected via a USB C cable and shows up in the system report as a connected USB 3.1 device, not thunderbolt. This seems to be why it isn't seen by the launcher. Anybody have a clue as to a fix?
It's the weekend and Antelope support is not available. Thanks

Your asking in the wrong place, this thread isn’t about M1 Macs. Anyways you should use a thunderbolt 3 cable, not USB C.
IIRC the interface does support USB but only via the separate USB B Port.

 

[PittsyRS]

Hey Everyone! First of all, massive thanks to everyone for their work on this. I feel that I am achingly close to having thunderbolt on my MacPro 4,1

I've got the card (Alpine Ridge V1) to register in system profiler with the full 40 Gb/s and I've got working and reliable USB 3.1. The issue is, I can't get a thunderbolt device to recognise at all.

I've tried a variety of different SSDT files & flashes of the rom to no avail. There was a suggestion that the Alpine Ridge card required 3.3V from an external source to activate it... But I'm not entirely sure if the card is already "activated" since it appears in system profiler correctly. Would love some expert opinions, especially for anyone who has gotten an Alpine Ridge V1 working?

Thanks in advance!

Specs:

MacOS Big Sur 11.6.1
Mac Pro 4,1 (flashed to 5,1)
Martin Lo's OpenCore (0.7.5)
Gigabyte Alpine Ridge (V1) - Flashed and pins jumped. Installed in slot 4.
Config attached - Saved as txt file so I can upload it.

 

[avro707]

Hey Everyone! First of all, massive thanks to everyone for their work on this. I feel that I am achingly close to having thunderbolt on my MacPro 4,1

I've got the card (Alpine Ridge V1) to register in system profiler with the full 40 Gb/s and I've got working and reliable USB 3.1. The issue is, I can't get a thunderbolt device to recognise at all.

I've tried a variety of different SSDT files & flashes of the rom to no avail. There was a suggestion that the Alpine Ridge card required 3.3V from an external source to activate it... But I'm not entirely sure if the card is already "activated" since it appears in system profiler correctly. Would love some expert opinions, especially for anyone who has gotten an Alpine Ridge V1 working?

Thanks in advance!

Specs:

MacOS Big Sur 11.6.1
Mac Pro 4,1 (flashed to 5,1)
Martin Lo's OpenCore (0.7.5)
Gigabyte Alpine Ridge (V1) - Flashed and pins jumped. Installed in slot 4.
Config attached - Saved as txt file so I can upload it.

Make sure you get rid of your computer serial number in that image, those can be misused.

What did you do to get the USB working on your machine? My Titan Ridge has thunderbolt running just by enabling this in the opencore config file (Martin Lo's 0.7.5 package) as follows and putting the card in slot 4. Your steps seem similar to mine, just that you have a different card and might be flashed differently:

<key>Comment</key>
<string>Thunderbolt 3</string>
<key>Enabled</key>
<true/>
<key>Path</key>
<string>SSDT-TBOLT3.aml</string>

I'm using Mac OS 12.1 beta 4 on this computer and 12.1 beta 2 on the other MP5,1.

I have a LG Ultrafine 5K screen connected via thunderbolt. It uses two Display port to mini-displayport in cables that go from the RX580 to the input ports on the Titan Ridge 2, that gives me the 5K resolution. Then the other display port on the RX580 drives the old Led Cinema Display at 2560x1440. I needed to do nothing more than that. It is required to disconnect the LG screen before starting the Mac, then connect it after macOS has loaded. That's the only quirk.

If you did connect any other cables, which ones did you connect and where to?

 

[PittsyRS]

Make sure you get rid of your computer serial number in that image, those can be misused.

What did you do to get the USB working on your machine? My Titan Ridge has thunderbolt running just by enabling this in the opencore config file (Martin Lo's 0.7.5 package) as follows and putting the card in slot 4:

<key>Comment</key>
<string>Thunderbolt 3</string>
<key>Enabled</key>
<true/>
<key>Path</key>
<string>SSDT-TBOLT3.aml</string>

I'm using Mac OS 12.1 beta 4 on this computer and 12.1 beta 2 on the other MP5,1.

I have a LG Ultrafine 5K screen connected via thunderbolt. It uses two Display port to mini-displayport in cables that go from the RX580 to the input ports on the Titan Ridge 2, that gives me the 5K resolution. Then the other display port on the RX580 drives the old Led Cinema Display at 2560x1440.

If you did connect any other cables, which ones did you connect and where to?

Whoops, thanks for that! SN removed.

I'd love to tell you there was a specific step to get USB working... but after flashing, installing and changing the opencore config to have the thunderbolt section set as "enable" (as you have done). The USB 3.1 bus seemed to "Just work"...

As far as cables on the alpine ridge, aside from the thunderbolt jumper (1 and 3) on the header on the back of the card.

I've tested usb devices via both ports on the front of the card and they function just fine. Plugging thunderbolt devices into the same ports yields nothing.

 

[jimborae]

Hi all quick question what is the recommended firmware to flash these days for a v1 Titan Ridge card going into a Mac Pro 5.1? Thanks

J

 

[KevinClark]

Elias 23

 

[cdf]

An interesting alternative that hasn't been mentioned before is the iMac19.2 Thunderbolt firmware:

Mac-63001698E7A34814-C0_6.84.0-C1_42.1-R0.bin

What's nice about this firmware is that

1. it's from Apple and completely unmodified
2. it's within 1 version of the v43 firmware for the GC-TITAN RIDGE
3. the iMac19,2 has the same TPS65983 USB-C PD controller

I've confirmed that this firmware works (it can be flashed after padding with zeros to get 0x100000 bytes), but I don't have a lot of Thunderbolt hardware to determine that it's actually better than the modified v23 available in this thread. On the other hand, having extensively studied the Ridge firmware, I can say that the modified firmware files in circulation include several questionable modifications. In fact, a change of only three bytes is enough to get a working Mac-compatible firmware: 2 bytes for enabling Apple CM mode and 1 for disabling ARC...

 

[KevinClark]

An interesting alternative that hasn't been mentioned before is the iMac19.2 Thunderbolt firmware:

Mac-63001698E7A34814-C0_6.84.0-C1_42.1-R0.bin

What's nice about this firmware is that

1. it's from Apple and completely unmodified
2. it's within 1 version of the v43 firmware for the GC-TITAN RIDGE
3. the iMac19,2 has the same TPS65983 USB-C PD controller

I've confirmed that this firmware works (it can be flashed after padding with zeros to get 0x100000 bytes), but I don't have a lot of Thunderbolt hardware to determine that it's actually better than the modified v23 available in this thread. On the other hand, having extensively studied the Ridge firmware, I can say that the modified firmware files in circulation include several questionable modifications. In fact, a change of only three bytes is enough to get a working Mac-compatible firmware: 2 bytes for enabling Apple CM mode and 1 for disabling ARC...

What brings this firmware ?

 

[cdf]

What brings this firmware ?

Well, the most interesting thing is that it's an actual Apple firmware. As for determining whether it brings any improvements, that can only be done by testing with various Thunderbolt devices.

 

[KevinClark]

Did someone try it ?

 

[ehood66]

Im running Big Sur 11.6.1 on a Mac Pro 2012.. 5,1 with opencore and martin lo’s lastest package(0.7.6) .. I have a pre flashed Alpine Ridge Thunderbolt/ USB-C card from eBay installed in Pci slot 4.. My issue is the card shows up as a Titan Ridge card(not alpine) in my System report and it’s working on a weird way .. I plug a usb-C flash drive into it and it copies files as it should on and off the drive .. I plug my iPhone into it ..it charges fine I can even run the both at the same time .. Problem-I plug my Samsung T5 ssd it shows up after a minute or so it ejects it’s self and if I try to copy a 2gb or so file it starts and gets to about 100mbs or so freezes and ejects the drive … I plug my apollo twin in first gen and it doesn’t even show up … also after the Samsung is auto ejected I unplug and replug and nothing I have to reboot to even see it again but it ejects again .. I’ve switched “false” to “true” in martins plist.. I normally navigate around these issues alone but I’m lost any guidance would be greatly appreciated thanks

 

[roobarb!]

Well, the most interesting thing is that it's an actual Apple firmware. As for determining whether it brings any improvements, that can only be done by testing with various Thunderbolt devices.

Does it solve the warm-rebooting requirement by any chance? I know that's a little much to ask.

I'd be interested to try this out when I can muster the will power, darn virus is very draining.

 

[cdf]

Does it solve the warm-rebooting requirement by any chance? I know that's a little much to ask.

Unfortunately, with my Thunderbolt display, I still needed the usual warm reboot for the brightness controls...

 

[roobarb!]

Unfortunately, with my Thunderbolt display, I still needed the usual warm reboot for the brightness controls...

Ah, well.

Does it still need the DSDT .aml file in OpenCore too?

 

[KevinClark]

Im running Big Sur 11.6.1 on a Mac Pro 2012.. 5,1 with opencore and martin lo’s lastest package(0.7.6) .. I have a pre flashed Alpine Ridge Thunderbolt/ USB-C card from eBay installed in Pci slot 4.. My issue is the card shows up as a Titan Ridge card(not alpine) in my System report and it’s working on a weird way .. I plug a usb-C flash drive into it and it copies files as it should on and off the drive .. I plug my iPhone into it ..it charges fine I can even run the both at the same time .. Problem-I plug my Samsung T5 ssd it shows up after a minute or so it ejects it’s self and if I try to copy a 2gb or so file it starts and gets to about 100mbs or so freezes and ejects the drive … I plug my apollo twin in first gen and it doesn’t even show up … also after the Samsung is auto ejected I unplug and replug and nothing I have to reboot to even see it again but it ejects again .. I’ve switched “false” to “true” in martins plist.. I normally navigate around these issues alone but I’m lost any guidance would be greatly appreciated thanks

Hello Try with this SSDT files from this package for your Alpine Ridge

 

[cdf]

Does it still need the DSDT .aml file in OpenCore too?

That would be an interesting test. I only tested it with the SSDT present.

 

[jdmarlow]

I have been using a Titan Ridge 2.0 flashed card in my Mac Pro 5,1 for a while now and love it. But so far I have only used it with Thunderbolt storage. I tried using it with a Thunderbolt 3 to 10GbE adapter today and it recognized the device just fine but Ethernet wouldn’t connect. Has anyone tried this? I need to figure out if this will work with the Titan Ridge card or if I have to resort to a separate PCIe card for 10GbE on the Mac Pro 5,1.

Thank you!

 

[obus]

An interesting alternative that hasn't been mentioned before is the iMac19.2 Thunderbolt firmware:
Mac-63001698E7A34814-C0_6.84.0-C1_42.1-R0.bin
(it can be flashed after padding with zeros to get 0x100000 bytes)

Could you please elaborate a little bit further how to pad the firmware with zeros to get 0x100000 bytes.

 

[cdf]

Could you please elaborate a little bit further how to pad the firmware with zeros to get 0x100000 bytes.

Sure. The file currently has 0x7E000 bytes. You want it to contain 0x100000 bytes. Open the file in a hex editor and paste a string of 00's until you reach byte 0xFFFFF (1048575) inclusively. Alternatively, the following Terminal command should do the trick:

dd if=/dev/zero of=firmware.bin bs=1 count=1 seek=1048575

 

[obus]

Sure. The file currently has 0x7E000 bytes. You want it to contain 0x100000 bytes. Open the file in a hex editor and paste a string of 00's until you reach byte 0xFFFFF (1048575) inclusively. Alternatively, the following Terminal command should do the trick:

dd if=/dev/zero of=firmware.bin bs=1 count=1 seek=1048575

Great. I will test that and flash one of my two Titan Ridge card.

 

[macsoundsolutions]

This is the post I've been looking for since quite some time - Thank you SO MUCH !!!
Mac Pro on TR2 can now sleep like a baby again.

So whats the best way to remove it? Soldering iron... its so tiny?

 

[obus]

Sure. The file currently has 0x7E000 bytes. You want it to contain 0x100000 bytes. Open the file in a hex editor and paste a string of 00's until you reach byte 0xFFFFF (1048575) inclusively. Alternatively, the following Terminal command should do the trick:

dd if=/dev/zero of=firmware.bin bs=1 count=1 seek=1048575

Hi before I test could you please help me with the command to revert to 0x7E000 if it should fail.

 

[cdf]

Hi before I test could you please help me with the command to revert to 0x7E000 if it should fail.

You mean to restore the file to it's original state? Just make a copy of the file before applying the command. You can also re-download it. You'll know that the command worked if the file size is 1048576 bytes.

 

[Mr_Time]

So whats the best way to remove it? Soldering iron... its so tiny?

Question relating to this post…
Is the only way to enable sleep on a TR V1 or V2 card by removing this resistor? Or is there a firmware and/or SSDT that enables sleep when devices are connected?

 

[LordeOurMother]

Is this upgrade worth it? I have a USB 3.0 card at the moment and I can't think of much peripheral wise I use that would benefit from TB over it.