OS X Driver for NVMe M.2 Solid State Drives Released

[shooirn]

How to install the NVMeGeneric.kext in Clover's EFI/CLOVER/kexts/10.11 folder, Can use it to boot and install on new PC ?

 

[wildwillow]

How to install the NVMeGeneric.kext in Clover's EFI/CLOVER/kexts/10.11 folder, Can use it to boot and install on new PC ?

Welcome to the Forums,
Yes you can install OS X on an NVMe drive using the NVMeGeneric.kext. Once you create your UniBeast USB, mount your USB's EFI Partition and drag-drop/copy & paste the driver to UniBeast/EFI/EFI/Clover/Kexts/10.11 folder. To mount the correct EFI partition - in Terminal type 'diskutil list' locate your USB's EFI partition. Then mount that EFI partition with EFI Mounter v3

 

[shooirn]

Welcome to the Forums,
Yes you can install OS X on an NVMe drive using the NVMeGeneric.kext. Once you create your UniBeast USB, mount your USB's EFI Partition and drag-drop/copy & paste the driver to UniBeast/EFI/EFI/Clover/Kexts/10.11 folder. To mount the correct EFI partition - in Terminal type 'diskutil list' locate your USB's EFI partition. Then mount that EFI partition with EFI Mounter v3

Thank you so much. I will try it.

 

[spionski]

Late but not least!! As promised, I have provided my fix to enable sleep while using MacVidCards's NVMeGeneric.kext. I have update my guide located on this link: http://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/o...-v-extreme-x99-haswell-e.188171/#post-1218158 but for NVMe only you can directly head to Step 6 . Don't forget to like and share if this has helped you!! Cheers!

Brilliant, thank you so much. I'm travelling at the moment and only manage to give this a very brief try before I left, but it looks like this does indeed get rid of the "Sleep prevented by H000" error message. (I seemed to run into some other trouble with sleep then, but that may not be related to the nvme driver.) Cheers!

 

[Obioban]

So, to confirm before I buy, the 951 works fine OOB as a boot drive, the 950 pro works, but not as a boot disk? And, trim is useless/not applicable to either, in OSX or windows?

Any reason I shouldn't get a 951 for my Mac Boot disk and a 950 Pro for my windows boot disk?

 

[EddyMac]

The 950 pro can work as a boot drive, but with my board it had the notorious shutdown/restart issue (immediate restart when you choose "Shutdown"). I sent my 950 back and got a SM951. In my limited testing the SM951 actually showed better speeds but that should be treated as anecdotal. I think the 950 is probably the nicer drive, but I was just too irritated by the shutdown bug to keep it. And word around this forum was that no one was working on a fix...nor likely to. TRIM works fine on the 951, but doesn't seem to be applicable to the 950.

 

[RehabMan]

So, to confirm before I buy, the 951 works fine OOB as a boot drive, the 950 pro works, but not as a boot disk? And, trim is useless/not applicable to either, in OSX or windows?

Any reason I shouldn't get a 951 for my Mac Boot disk and a 950 Pro for my windows boot disk?

If your BIOS has NVMe services in its UEFI, then no issue used as boot disk.

But NVMe on OS X requires NVMeGeneric.kext which as a few known problems... It was not written to be used as a boot drive. The author intended it only as a data drive for genuine Apple MacPro (which works well).

Using NVMe for Windows and AHCI for OS X is reasonable, assuming you have dual M.2 x4 slots.

 

[wildwillow]

Any reason I shouldn't get a 951 for my Mac Boot disk and a 950 Pro for my windows boot disk?

No reason at all. Thats how I have my Skylake build configured. SM951 AHCI with OS X. SM951 NVMe with Windows.

 

[Stork]

I just saw this cure for the shutdown/restart problem. It bares watching the result. Start here. (I'm unable to test this procedure at this time.)

Update: As the following posts attest to, this "cure" has mixed results on different ASUS motherboards. Use at your own risk. There is no solution, yet.

 

[Lexidiot]

I just saw this cure for the shutdown/restart problem. It bares watching the result. Start here. (I'm unable to test this procedure at this time.)

work for me, asus z97 / ErP Enabled(S5) + Fix Shutdown Clover flag

Edit: now don't return from sleep by moving mouse or touch keyboard