[SUCCESS] Gigabyte Designare Z390 (Thunderbolt 3) + i7-9700K + AMD RX 580

[phrfpeixoto]

Please note that Thunderbolt is already working on your motherboard. And hot plug is working as well. The discussion about modifying and patching the Thunderbolt firmware can be ignored until a conclusion is reached. Right now we're still in the R&D phase trying to take Thunderbolt to the next level -- specifically, to make it do (nearly) everything that a real Mac can do with Thunderbolt.

How can we support such effort?

 

[galisrule]

Please try the attached file:

• Mount EFI Partition of macOS SSD and copy the file into CLOVER/ACPI/patched.
• Reboot.
• If the device names do not change and hotplug does not work, download and run MaciASL 1.5.7 RELEASE from here.
  • Then select File --> New from ACPI --> DSDT.
  • Save and upload that file.

@CaseySJ did you get a chance to look at my DSDT as u requested?

 

[phrfpeixoto]

@CaseySJ
Weird app lockups continue after the update to Catalina. Now I have The Desktop & Screensaver Preferences Pane hanging. Not really sure why.

I've read online that logging in with a guest account and accessing it would solve, but now I figured out I can no longer login as guest. It spins, then monitor shows no signal. Tapping the keyboard woke the screen, but it was still just spinning...

One thing that I thought strange during the process was updating clover itself. I updated it through Clover Configurator, and on the installer, I tried to select all drivers that were already on my drivers64UEFI folder. I had 8, and the installer (among other that I unchecked) only offered 6, so I selected those and proceeded.

Now comparing the current EFI folder, I see that some drivers were moved to drivers/UEFI and some were left on the original drivers64UEFI folder. Names changed as well

Is this expected? Would it cause issues? How can I fix this?

 

[jackil182]

Just move the MacOS NVMe to M2P and install Windows NVMe into M2M. Then select boot order in BIOS — select macOS as first boot disk. You should be able to boot Windows from Clover Boot Menu if the Windows NVMe has an EFI partition with the Windows boot loader installed there.

OK, I will try that and report in the thread. However, there's one more question regarding partitions. I will have 2 SSDs (one for macOS, one for Windows) and I also have a SATA SSD, which I would like to use as a shared drive between 2 OSs. What's the best approach to make it work? I found this method online, however it's rather old, so I'm wondering if there's a better way.

 

[phrfpeixoto]

OK, I will try that and report in the thread. However, there's one more question regarding partitions. I will have 2 SSDs (one for macOS, one for Windows) and I also have a SATA SSD, which I would like to use as a shared drive between 2 OSs. What's the best approach to make it work? I found this method online, however it's rather old, so I'm wondering if there's a better way.

exFat is natively supported on both, so it should be a good solution.

 

[safehans]

I currently don't have any Thunderbolt devices to test. So I connected USB 3.0 drive to Apple Hub to Thunderbolt port and the USB showed up.

I'm also having issues connecting USB 3 devices to usb-c ports.

To clarify, did you simply add an apple hub between the usb-c port and the device?
did you use another usb-c cable to the device?

 

[phrfpeixoto]

I currently don't have any thunderbolt devices to test so I connected USB 3.0 drive to Apple Hub to Thunderbolt port and the USB showed up.

Could you please share what hub was used? Did you mean Apple dongle?

 

[safehans]

Yeah an Apple dongle to a USB3.0 type A drive. Here's a pic so there's no confusion

Could you please share what hub was used? Did you mean apple dongle?

 

[phrfpeixoto]

Thanks. I guess my cousin has one of these. Will try.

 

[CaseySJ]

@CaseySJ did you get a chance to look at my DSDT as u requested?

The DSDT confirms that SSDT-TBOLT3-RP05.aml provided earlier is okay. Which Thunderbolt device are you attempting to connect? Does it work when connected prior to boot?