Recent content by Gutz_Otoole

Success, I think. This one ran more like most previous updates, with an expected progress dialogue, unlike the 14.4 updater. Nothing is broken, though I temporarily lost SMB connection to a NAS drive.

A slow update with no confidence-building messages like "X minutes remaining". Nevertheless, it was clean and nothing was broken. I followed the advice given here, firstly by making certain I had a bootable backup. Next, I re-checked my USB map using Hackintool. I made a screenshot of the...

No problems.

Easy peasy.

The FL1000 card works perfectly. Thanks for the advice.

This inexpensive little gem worked quite well under Catalina and Big Sur, but last night's update to Ventura killed it. Any thoughts from the community? Has anyone tested this adapter under Ventura?

I considered that one, but Type C ports are going to be more and more important.

We'll see.

Buttery smooth. OC Auxiliary Tools, don't leave Catalina without them.

Unfortunately, those Inateck products don't post to the States. I've ordered the YEELIYA USB 3.2 card. When I install it I'll remap the USBs to favor the faster ports. (I assume Ventura has the same 15-port limit as Big Sur.) I hardly have use for USB2 on this machine.

The second card you recommend fits my needs and can be shipped to the States. Will buy this one.

I was looking around for a 4-port macOS-supported card for a new build, but each one I researched turns out to be currently unobtainium.

Has anyone had experience with this USB add-in card?

This thread refers to an older hack that ran just fine until I used Onyx. Though Onyx has been a reliable tool in the past, this time for some reason it left my machine unable to complete the boot sequence for macOS 10.13.6. The EFI bootloader appears intact and it allowed me to boot into...