I still need help getting Thunderbolt to work on my machine. Is there anyone in this thread who actually got their Asus Thunderbolt EX 3 to work, or are all the successful builds using the Gigabyte board?
Note that I'm on Mojave PB6.
I've been trying to get a G-Raid Shuttle TB3 drive to connect, which should be fairly straightforward, but isn't.
My status so far:
- The Thunderbolt controller never shows up without the motherboard lead attached, in either Windows or MacOS. So I have to have it plugged in. I don't really care about hot-plug much as long as it works consistently.
- It works very well on Windows, and I made sure to install the latest drivers and firmware from Asus
- Under MacOS, a USB stick is working great in both USB-C and USB-A ports
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Hot-plugging or unplugging a Thunderbolt3 device causes an immediate freeze
- I managed to get the drive to show up once, by plugging it in at a specific moment between POST and Clover. It showed up and performed as intended, so I certainly have all the drivers configured correctly. If I plug it before turning on: looks like it's not getting the power at the right time, and never appears. If I plug it in at Clover screen or after - I get stuck with with a port integrity check error.
- I did implement the devices using adopted version of
@kgp's SSDT, and they show up just fine in PCI. However, the SSDT implementation doesn't make any difference in the way devices are handled.
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