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

[Martys1]

*Apogee Thunderbridge Solved* (Working in Catalina w/5.4c Symphony Drivers)

For the last couple of days I have been trying to get an Apogee Thunderbridge to work with a flashed v23.0 Titan Ridge card and Opencore. The card worked fine for TB uses apart from working with the Apogee Thunderbridge. The Apogee Thunderbridge was “recognized” in the system profiler correctly (Apple Inc. Vendor/40 Gb/s) but it would not connect to any interfaces connected to it (“no Apogee systems found”). I tried everything I could think of...changed TB cable, re-installed Apogee drivers, allow driver in Gatekeeper, tried Mojave, cold boot, warm boot, etc. But nothing worked...

The solution turned out to be simple...to just remove the SSDT-TBOLT3.aml file from my Opencore EFI and reboot. System profiler reports Thunderbolt bus as vendor “Gigabyte” 20 GB/s

Based on this finding, I have a couple of questions...

1. Is SSDT-TBOLT3.aml only required for HotPlug or do I loose any other of the Titan Ridge card’s functionality?

2. Is there another SSDT file I should try?

thanks

Hey, I just read your post and i was wondering: does / did the combination Titan Ridge -> Thunderbridge -> Symphony work well for you in the end? Any crashes / device not recognized /warm boot needed, etc?
And what was the highest OS /Open Core version that you have used with this configuration?
I'm asking because I'm doubting if i should sell my Symphony 64 pcie card and free the occupied pcie slot for a Titan Ridge, connect my Symphony mk1 though a Thunderbridge and have Thunderbolt connectivity.
Tnx!

 

[Tinsken]

Hello.
I installed the Titan Ridge to my Mac Pro 5.1 running Catalina. The card is at the pci slot 4. It's properly flashed and it shows at the system information just fine. I downloaded and installed the drivers, blessed the Open Core and when I connect an nvme usb c disk do the Titan Ridge, it works just fine.
I recently bought Mac Mini M2 Pro and I want to connect it to Mac Pro 5.1 using thunderbolt brodge, so I can uste my Mac pro as a storage server. I tried everything such as DHCP, Manually typing the ip addresses but I didn't het them to see each other. I both the Titan Ridge just for this purpose, to be able to access the Mac pro disks via thunderbolt bridge.
Can someone help please?

Best Regards,
Tino

 

[AlexMaximus]

Hello.
I installed the Titan Ridge to my Mac Pro 5.1 running Catalina. The card is at the pci slot 4. It's properly flashed and it shows at the system information just fine. I downloaded and installed the drivers, blessed the Open Core and when I connect an nvme usb c disk do the Titan Ridge, it works just fine.
I recently bought Mac Mini M2 Pro and I want to connect it to Mac Pro 5.1 using thunderbolt brodge, so I can uste my Mac pro as a storage server. I tried everything such as DHCP, Manually typing the ip addresses but I didn't het them to see each other. I both the Titan Ridge just for this purpose, to be able to access the Mac pro disks via thunderbolt bridge.
Can someone help please?

Best Regards,
Tino

In the PC World about 30 years ago there used to be only a very limited number of how to connect systems. Either a classic network with RJ45 / CAT cables or special solutions like a PC to PC via crossover cable. This golden rule has not changed much. Only a view more special solutions, mostly proprietary have been added. However no special solution ever made it to replace the gold standard - Network via CAT/RJ45 cabling.
The Thunderbolt solution was never intended to connect PC's. Its sole intention was to allow more bandwidth compared to USB & Firewire for faster data transfer between PCI add-on / plug-in cards / GPUs to the CPU mainframe peripherals.
This means, if you want to network your MP5.1 with a Mac mini, you should go the traditional route and use the classical Ethernet platform. Go for an Ethernet switch, use an older (and budget friendly) Apple Time Capsule with Ethernet switch option and avoid this Thunderbolt stuff when it comes to Networking and Server Applications. NAS Solutions such as Synology, Netgear or Lacie are your friends. Believe me, you don't want to wast your time in setting up Thunderbolt stuff other than the intended usage. At least that's my experience so far.

One of my personal favorite third party is this one here. They have a dedicated section when it comes to networking.
Check out their solutions. There are many options that will work with your MP5.1 full support.

25GbE, 10GbE, 2.5GbE and AVB Ethernet - SONNETTECH

Single and dual-port 25GbE, 10GbE, 2.5GbE, and AVB Ethernet Thunderbolt networking adapters and PCIe cards for Mac, Windows and Linux computers with Thunderbolt 4 or 3 ports.

www.sonnettech.com

@joevt:
When it comes to brand new computers and devices after manufacturing year 2020, you are completely correct.
There are some new use cases with that Thunderbolt stuff that may work under special circumstances. Of course Apple wants you imprisoned in their Walled Garden of expensive, propriatery world of new toys.
Still, the traditional network approach is the old world, showed in the link above.

 

[joevt]

The Thunderbolt solution was never intended to connect PC's.

It can connect PC's. Therefore it was intended. There was so much intent, that the developers of all Thunderbolt supporting OS's (macOS, Windows, Linux) took the effort to have Thunderbolt IP drivers created for them.

What is not intended, is for people to use Thunderbolt Add-In cards in old PCs. This is evidenced by the fact that Thunderbolt Add-In cards require extra connections and firmware that old PC's don't have. I suppose manufacturers would rather you buy a new PC. Open Core can maybe apply the necessary firmware changes (SSDT? EFI driver? I dunno).

 

[KevinClark]

Is there a new firmware to flash titan ridge v2 to get 2 thunderbolt working both great on Mac Opencore Martin Lo 098 + SSDT Thanks

 

[KevinClark]

Hello

i m still Using my macpro 5.1 12 cores under Monterey and mac flashed titan ridge with latest martin Lo opencore
Thunderbolt connection Works good for my Apollo and quad dsp after the Automatic reboot


I have tried Ventura and Sonoma with latest oclp 1.5 I have injected ssdt titan ridge in acpi the card is recognised but in boot process it freeze in the middle is there any Line commands to add in config plist to Make it works

thanks

 

[yakult121]

Got it working. Titan Ridge on Thunderbolt Display. All features including camera work after warm reboot. USB is too slow around 10-15MB as its not USB 3.

Sleep is not working right anymore and I assume that is just par for the course. When it tries to sleep just wakes up right away over and over. I just have to disable sleep and shut to down every time. Its about 160w with the apple display off on the lowest activity, I can't just be tossing quarters down the drain.

That seems to be the last biggest issue for me, lack of sleep and start/restart but its working great!

Sleep doesn't work correctly with any thunderbolt option correct?

Hey @JoeOIVOV would you mind sharing your SSDT and firmware? I'm running a Titan Ridge v2 with V23 firmware. Thunderbolt display is detected in Monterey but Thunderbolt display is black and not showing anything. I've soft rebooted more than once too.

 

[donzubeck]

Hello

i m still Using my macpro 5.1 12 cores under Monterey and mac flashed titan ridge with latest martin Lo opencore
Thunderbolt connection Works good for my Apollo and quad dsp after the Automatic reboot


I have tried Ventura and Sonoma with latest oclp 1.5 I have injected ssdt titan ridge in acpi the card is recognised but in boot process it freeze in the middle is there any Line commands to add in config plist to Make it works

Hello

i m still Using my macpro 5.1 12 cores under Monterey and mac flashed titan ridge with latest martin Lo opencore
Thunderbolt connection Works good for my Apollo and quad dsp after the Automatic reboot


I have tried Ventura and Sonoma with latest oclp 1.5 I have injected ssdt titan ridge in acpi the card is recognised but in boot process it freeze in the middle is there any Line commands to add in config plist to Make it works

thanks

I do not have a titan ridge card yet, but when I use my presonus firewire firepod in Sonoma
i find i need to turn it on before the second apple loading progress bar and after the first loading progress bar. It is a pain waiting for the correct moment because if I miss it I need to reboot and wait for the correct time again. On my 2010 cmp when I boot Sonoma I get 3 apple loading progress screens, first with a larger apple second with a smaller apple, and third with the large apple again before i get to the desktop. If you get the same while booting your mac in sonoma try turning on your Apollo in-between the first and second apple.