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[Guide] Dell XPS 13 9360 on MacOS Sierra 10.12.x - LTS (Long-Term Support) Guide

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So managed to install and get up and running on 10.13.5

Reconfigured to 4k sector size, then all was good.

When I was in Ubuntu, the drive showed up a little funny, the text description when running smartctl said the drive was using 512 sector size, but where it listed both the supported LBA sizes, neither had the "+" in front of it.

My assumption is there was something in the SSD formatting that was preventing it from showing in the installer as 10.13 should natively support 512 sector size?

10.13 supports 512 LBA, but Hynix requires a special patch for preferred block size (see my patch-nvme github, config_patches.plist).

Changing to 4k is better if your drive has the capability.
 
They are in the first post just sort of hiding with all those photos as attachments. You have to look carefully. It’s called Files-v9.01.zip
thanks..I read twice the post but missed it in the photos ;-)

BTW, is there an equivalent archive for High Sierra?
 
10.13 supports 512 LBA, but Hynix requires a special patch for preferred block size (see my patch-nvme github, config_patches.plist).

Changing to 4k is better if your drive has the capability.

Are you saying that with 4k I'd still need a patch? Because I didn't do anything specific after the format, but maybe the-darkvoid's clover files were already patched?

I'm up and running, but my fan is constantly running. Any ideas what could be the cause?
 
So my computer seems to running hot, the fan is running constantly and it is warm to the touch.
 

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Great tutorial, got my XPS working in less than 2 days with 0 prior experience. Kudos!
 
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Your kextcache output proves kexts are not installed correctly.
All kexts you need must be installed to the system volume.

Installed all the kexts to /L/E (via terminal) and rebuilt kextcache (sudo kextcache -i /).

I'm still running hot.
 

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Did you put them in /system/Library/Extensions?
 
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