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

KevSea · Jan 20, 2023

CaseySJ said:
Can you provide a more specific description of why you believe TB ports are not working?

I've plugged in multiple drives and devices, both hot plugged and rebooted with them connected. nothing is showing up. I've tried bus powered and self powered devices. bus powered devices to get power but don't show up

CaseySJ · Jan 20, 2023

KevSea said:
I've plugged in multiple drives and devices, both hot plugged and rebooted with them connected. nothing is showing up. I've tried bus powered and self powered devices. bus powered devices to get power but don't show up

Got it.

Is the Thunderbolt section in BIOS configured properly?

Let’s also take a look at IOReg (IORegistryExplorer -> File -> Save As…).

mustang.dvs · Jan 22, 2023

I have a head-scratcher that I've not been able to figure out: my optical drive does not mount any media.

I've tried commercially produced DVDs, audio CDs, data discs, or blank media. Nothing. However, It shows correctly in System Profiler and responds to the eject key (so I don't think it's the SATA headers), but no media ever mounts.

I'm attaching my anonymized EFI.

I have a stable iMac19,1 i9 9900K build running OS X 12.6.2, using OC 0.8.8, a Radeon VII (recently upgraded from an RX480). Current z390 firmware is F9g. The burner is a Hitachi GSA-H31N that worked in my previous Mac Pro 5,1. I don't have Windows (or Linux) installed to test if it loads in other OSes.

I've made half-hearted attempts to resolve it in the past, but now I have a client who wants me to burn him a DVD (and I really don't want to spend money on an external drive, when I have a perfectly good one sitting in my Hackintosh).

Thanks!

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brousseau6933 · Jan 22, 2023

mustang.dvs said:
I have a head-scratcher that I've not been able to figure out: my optical drive does not mount any media.

I've tried commercially produced DVDs, audio CDs, data discs, or blank media. Nothing. However, It shows correctly in System Profiler and responds to the eject key (so I don't think it's the SATA headers), but no media ever mounts.

I'm attaching my anonymized EFI.

I have a stable iMac19,1 i9 9900K build running OS X 12.6, using OC 0.8.8, a Radeon VII (recently upgraded from an RX480). The burner is a Hitachi GSA-H31N that worked in my previous Mac Pro 5,1. I don't have Windows (or Linux) installed to test if it loads in other OSes.

I've made half-hearted attempts to resolve it in the past, but now I have a client who wants me to burn him a DVD (and I really don't want to spend money on an external drive, when I have a perfectly good one sitting in my Hackintosh).

Thanks!

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Are you able to boot from a Linux Live DVD? In the case you have another burner elesewhere to burn it, obviously... Is it still working in your MP5,1 (I know, you'd have to reinstall it in the MacPro to test...)?

Which software are you using to try to write to the DVD?

mustang.dvs · Jan 22, 2023

brousseau6933 said:
Are you able to boot from a Linux Live DVD? In the case you have another burner elesewhere to burn it, obviously... Is it still working in your MP5,1 (I know, you'd have to reinstall it in the MacPro to test...)?

Which software are you using to try to write to the DVD?

Unfortunately, the hackintosh is the only machine I have with an optical drive. And the Mac Pro has long since found a new home.

No media mounts, so nothing appears in Finder, FCPX, VLC, iTunes, etc.

brousseau6933 · Jan 22, 2023

mustang.dvs said:
Unfortunately, the hackintosh is the only machine I have with an optical drive. And the Mac Pro has long since found a new home.

No media mounts, so nothing appears in Finder, FCPX, VLC, iTunes, etc.

Nothing already burned, like an ISO Linux or something? No cheap PC to install the burner? Sorry, nothing cross my mind as what could be your problem. The cables are snug fit? You tried to put the SATA cable on another header?

mustang.dvs · Jan 22, 2023

brousseau6933 said:
Nothing already burned, like an ISO Linux or something? No cheap PC to install the burner? Sorry, nothing cross my mind as what could be your problem. The cables are snug fit? You tried to put the SATA cable on another header?

No optical media that’s bootable. No other machines with space for optical drives (an MBP, a 2015 Mini, and a G4 cube that hasn’t been powered on in years).

Swapping SATA headers and cables has no effect. Booting in as another admin account has no effect.

CaseySJ · Jan 22, 2023

mustang.dvs said:
No optical media that’s bootable. No other machines with space for optical drives (an MBP, a 2015 Mini, and a G4 cube that hasn’t been powered on in years).

Swapping SATA headers and cables has no effect. Booting in as another admin account has no effect.

I have a USB CD reader/writer, which works properly.

Regarding your Hitachi SATA drive, in Kernel section of config.plist, is ThirdPartyDrives checked on? If so, try checking it off and rebooting. Not sure this will help, but worth a try.

mustang.dvs · Jan 22, 2023

CaseySJ said:
I have a USB CD reader/writer, which works properly.

Regarding your Hitachi SATA drive, in Kernel section of config.plist, is ThirdPartyDrives checked on? If so, try checking it off and rebooting. Not sure this will help, but worth a try.

I had a friend pull a Philips DVD8881 from a chassis I'd given him a long time ago and it, oddly, works perfectly fine in my Hackintosh with no changes to the config. The Hitachi drive may just be bad. (He's going to pop it into his Linux box and see if it mounts.)

ETA: I'm going to look into purchasing a USB 3.0 / USB-C Blu-Ray burner, I'm just trying to be frugal until my business is in better shape -- no one has asked for physical media in ages; it's all been digital delivery for the past 5 years.

SardusX · Jan 23, 2023

Hi @CaseySJ,
Hi All,
I recently installed macOS Monterey on a new nvme M.2 drive to replace an existing drive (Samsung 970 EVO - now moved to a PCIe x4 expansion card) using Opencore 0.8.3 (using the EFI folder You Provide in the Opencore 0.8.3 Mini-Guide-thanks

) as boot manager in a multiboot system with different operating systems each on its own drive (nvme M.2, SATA SSD, SATA mechanical hard disks).
At startup, however, an "EFI" entry appears in the Opencore boot menu that doesn't seem to refer to any OS and that I can't delete.
I tried to identify which Drive or OS this menu entry refers to also using the ScanPolicy variable to exclude all SATA drives at startup but the "EFI" entry remains in the boot picker.
I learned in another thread that starting from Opencore 0.8.8 it is possible to add a .contentVisibility file in the /EFI/boot directory to hide/disable unwanted Opencore menu entries.
I noticed that in a previous post of this thread