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

[CaseySJ]

Thank you for your answer Casey
So the upgrade to OC 0.6.8 seems to work fine with your mini-guide.
But I still can't use the OWC USB Dock Bay-CA on the Thunderbolt ports behind.
Is it because it's only USB 3.1 Gen 2 and not Thunderbolt?
Or because I'm using bios F9i? (but you say on post 1 it's over F9j we have this issue).
Sorry but I'm confused between USB C and Thunderbolt ports, is it supposed to work in this case?

PS: link for the product https://www.owcdigital.com/products/drive-dock-usb-c

Hello @Ecavguenatz,

BIOS F9i is okay to use. When you connect the OWC USB Dock with just one drive, does the drive connect?

Please try connecting just one drive, then hot plug a second drive. What happens? Do both drives connect? Or only the first one? Or only the last one?

After connecting a drive, we can also look at IORegistryExplorer (RP05 section) to see if the drives are connected. Feel free to post the IOReg file (File —> Save As...).

 

[CaseySJ]

** A Brief Look at OpenCanopy 0.6.8 **​

Screenshots will be saved in EFI partition of the boot drive as PNG files.

 

[CaseySJ]

** Guide to Using HackinDROM Application to Update OpenCore **
Please do not quote this guide in its entirety. Post a link instead

Credit: @Inqnuam

Works only with Catalina and Big Sur (version 1.2.0+)
Mojave users please use the HackinDROM website as explained in the original mini-guide
​

Purpose:
OpenCore is currently being updated every month. Updating our EFI folders at such a high frequency can become tedious and error prone. Fortunately, @Inqnuam has developed a wonderful little app that does all of the work for us. This illustrated mini-guide walks us through the entire process.

Warning 1:
Because this is the first large scale test of this app, please make a full bootable backup of your system before updating OpenCore. If the updated EFI folder fails to boot, you can always boot from the backup disk and manually copy your working EFI folder from the backup disk to the main disk.

Warning 2:
Do not ignore Warning 1 under any circumstances.

• Download HackinDROM App from https://hackindrom.zapto.org as shown below. It will appear in your Downloads folder.
• Copy the app to your Applications folder and launch it. MacOS will show standard warning about unknown developer.
• Go to System Preferences --> Security & Privacy --> General and allow macOS to launch the app.

• The app will appear in the Menu Bar as shown:

• Click the icon. The app will take a moment to scan all drives on the system. It will then show a list of all disks that contain EFI partitions.
• The app's version number will also be shown (bottom left corner).
• The app will auto-update itself when a new version is available. It may be necessary to re-launch the app.
• There is an Exit button on the top right.
• There is a Settings button on the top left.
• When launch the app for the first time (or to change settings in the future) click the Settings icon on the top left.
  • Do that now.

• The Settings page looks like this:
  • There are optional configuration checkboxes at the top. Configure them as you like.
  • There are required options just below, in the red box. These must be selected correctly.
• Then click the "back" icon <-- on the top left to return to the Main Menu.

• The Motherboard drop-down list will grow in the future to support additional motherboards. At this time the choices are:

• Now we return to the Main Menu and mount the drive to be updated. In this example, we are updating OpenCore on a USB flash drive, but the app can be used to directly update the internal macOS SSD.
  • The app will check for available disk space.
  • The app will auto delete files in the hidden trash folder on the EFI partition.
  • The app will ZIP and backup the existing EFI folder.
• Below we have clicked the Mount button for a 64GB USB Flash Drive and entered our password. The App has subsequently mounted the EFI partition and determined that:
  • The selected drive is currently running OC 0.6.7
  • The selected drive can be updated to OC 0.6.8

• We click the button Update to 0.6.8 and the following screen appears.
  • We can review and adjust the changes that will be made to each section.
  • Info section just shows the current serial number and other parameters.
  • We can also check the Release Notes by clicking the yellow triangle.
• We'll look at each of the subsequent sections next.

• Let's look at ACPI section first.
• The app tries to merge SSDTs in the current and new EFI folders. It does not simply delete everything in the current folder and replace it with files in the new folder.
  • SSDTs that are in the old folder, but not in the new folder will be kept.
  • SSDTs that are in the old folder and the new folder will be replaced with the new version if it has a new date/time.
• The Update column determines whether an existing SSDT should be updated if a newer version is present in the new EFI folder.
  • This controls whether the physical file is copied.
• The Enable column determines whether any particular SSDT should be injected into the system during boot. This is equivalent to the "Enable" flag in OpenCore config.plist.
• We can always update an SSDT, but prevent it from being injected, by setting Update to true and Enable to false.

• We do the same for all Kexts:

• And again for all Drivers.
• But in some cases we may need to disable a faulty driver due to a problem in a past EFI folder.
• Do you see a problem in the screenshot below? OpenHfsPlus is not yet fully reliable, particularly when RAID drives are present, so we should continue to use the standard HfsPlus, which is also present.
  • So we need to disable OpenHfsPlus as shown in the second screenshot below.

• Everything looks good now, so let's begin the update.
• We click Update OpenCore on the lower right and a progress bar appears:

• When the update is finished, we see a Notification:

• And a Finder window opens to show us the results:

Update Complete.

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Reference:

 

[Ecavguenatz]

When you connect the OWC USB Dock...

Hi Casey
Thank you again for taking time to answer to everybody so kindly
(I don’t know how you manage to do that all day long...).

So here is what I have:
In System Information -> Thunderbold it’s Empty (says no drivers or something like that in french).
On Desktop or in DiskUtility nothing appears with 1 or 2 drives connected.
In IORegistryExplorer nothing changes while the dock is On or Off (see the saved file).

Nevertheless in Hackintool seems I have something as port SSP1 and SSP2 no? (see the saved screenshot).
But again nothing changes while the dock is On or Off.

 

[CaseySJ]

Hi Casey
Thank you again for taking time to answer to everybody so kindly
(I don’t know how you manage to do that all day long...).

So here is what I have:
In System Information -> Thunderbold it’s Empty (says no drivers or something like that in french).
On Desktop or in DiskUtility nothing appears with 1 or 2 drives connected.
In IORegistryExplorer nothing changes while the dock is On or Off (see the saved file).

Nevertheless in Hackintool seems I have something as port SSP1 and SSP2 no? (see the saved screenshot).
But again nothing changes while the dock is On or Off.

I wonder if the problem is due to the USB-C cable that you are using.

• Are you using the USB-C to USB-C cable that comes with the OWC Dock?
  • If not, which USB-C cable are you using?
• Have you tried connecting the USB-C to USB-A cable that comes with the OWC Dock?
  • Does this cable work?

 

[Ecavguenatz]

I wonder if the problem is due to the USB-C cable that you are using

I'm so confused: you're absolutely right.
I tried another cable, and it worked at once.
The cable which was not working is a brand new one I bought long enough for this dock. So the shorter (maybe camed with the dock) is working great.
In fact I was so convinced something in my configuration of OpenCore was wrong that I didn't try other material solution.
You're doing great job helping people.
Thanks Casey, have a nice day.

 

[achillespilot]

Hey @CaseySJ, I'm attempting your procedure as per post no. 17210. The strange thing is, the first step, where you say it 'should not work', works for me with no power cable plugged into my PSU. I can then run 3 backups, apparently successfully, but then using the checksum command each one is completely different! Needless to say I haven't tried flashing the chip yet... any ideas? I'm using a Pi3 by the way. Thanks!

EDIT: disregard, working now thanks for the awesome work as ever!

 

[jiffyslot]

That app looks amazing. Is there a version that would work on Mojave?

 

[CaseySJ]

That app looks amazing. Is there a version that would work on Mojave?

I assume you've tried running it on Mojave, but it doesn't work?

 

[Inqnuam]

That app looks amazing. Is there a version that would work on Mojave?

I assume you've tried running it on Mojave, but it doesn't work?

I'm sorry, but unfortunately it is not designed at all for macOS under Catalina.
As I'm new to macOS app development. I'm not planning to learn old version of dev tools to support Mojave because it is time taking task.
Why Catalina is not supported ? Because there's no break changes between Catalina and Big Sur so I considered that almost everybody updated from Catalina to Big Sur. But maybe I'll add Catalina support in a future version.