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I've been bothering with this problem for a while now and after lots of googling and trial and error i've decided to look for some help.
My Build:
Os X 10.11.3 El Capitan
Gigabyte X99-Gaming 5
Intel i7 5820k (OC to 4.45Ghz)
Corsair H110i
Zotac Geforce 980GTX Amp! Edition
4x4GB g.Skill Ripjaws 2800MHZ (xmp enabled)
PCI:
Firewire (can't recall which one right now...)
Asus Thunderboltex II
Audio: PreSonus FIREBOX
Video:
AOC 22"
Dell UP2715K
Storage:
SanDisk SSD PLUS 240GB (System)
Samsung 830 Series 256 GB (System Windows / Dualboot)
Samsung 850 EVO 1 TB
Variety of WD disk for Backup etc.
PSU: be quiet! BN253 Dark Power Pro 850W
Case: Nanoxia Deep Silence rev. 5
External Storage: Pegasus Promise R6
Drivers64uefi: EmuVariableUefi-64.efi
FSInject-64.efi
HFSPlus-64.efi
OsxAptioFix2Drv-free2000.efi
OsxFatBinaryDrv-64.efi
The Problem:
Since I've been working a lot with a thunderbolt Raid I like to bring from work to continue working at home, adding Thunderbolt support to my Hackintosh was essential for me. Sadly, Gigabyte stopped producing their own Thunderbolt add-in Card, so i was unable to get one; i tried then switching to an asus board, but those just kept dying on me for no reason (just a bad batch i guess?), so in pure despair, and after asking Gigabyte support, which recommended using the HP add-in Card, I just plugged my Asus ThunderboltEx Card in my Gigabyte board, and guess what, it worked instantly. At least at the beginning.
The Add-In card was recognized in UEFI as once as "Intel Thunderbolt" and, after research, configured with the following settings:
Thunderbolt - enabled
Security - Legacy
PCIe Cache-line Size: 128
Ignore TB Option Rom - Enabled
SwSMI Delay - 10ms
Device IO Resource Support - Enabled
Reserved mem per phy Slot - 1024
Reserved PMem per phy Slot - 1024
Reserved Memory - Maximum
Reserved IO per phy slot - 48
The Raid popped up in Finder instantly after reboot, as well as in system information (under SAS, as expected). Thunderbolt Kexts were deleted, as i read they aren't needed in Hackintosh since it's detected as SAS anyway.
My Problem: I'm working with FCPX, having a rather large library on my raid. Cutting works flawless 99% of the time, but everytime i start an action which includes writing lots of files (like rendering, exporting), the progress bar just stop; from this moment on, i can no longer address the raid at all. All Apps acessing the raid are frozen, most of the time they cant even be closed. I can still create a folder using the finder, but once i try to delete or rename it, its gone forever; the system wont shutdown (since it cant disconnect the raid) and even worse, once i force shutdown it, the raid won't shutdown automatically like its supposed to be, neither can it be shutdown using the power button, so im forced so disconnect the power, which is certainly not the best option for a raid holding 10tb of really important data...
Why is this a Hackintosh problem? Because I have no problem Copying, rendering or doing whatsoever using my Macbook or my Dualboot Windows, which is my workaround right now, but using my 2011 macbook for rendering is not the whole idea of a 2000€ system...
Things ive tried: Removing All Other PCI Cards, almost every setting in UEFI, trying it with Thunderbolt Kexts installed, trying diffrent PCI slot, checked of course file integrity, checked raid status with promise utility, tried to find anything in systemlog (doesnt seem to mention anything)
Right now im rather clueless. It seems to be some problem with a buffer overloading, maybe it's a problem with the ram fragmentation under x99 systems? (Trying to write to ram where its not supposed to once its starting to fill?); I can't see the settings being at fault, since they work allright under windows); right now im mainly blocked, because i don't no how to do future troubleshooting (like using the information of any crashlogs etc...) so im really hoping for any advice
My Build:
Os X 10.11.3 El Capitan
Gigabyte X99-Gaming 5
Intel i7 5820k (OC to 4.45Ghz)
Corsair H110i
Zotac Geforce 980GTX Amp! Edition
4x4GB g.Skill Ripjaws 2800MHZ (xmp enabled)
PCI:
Firewire (can't recall which one right now...)
Asus Thunderboltex II
Audio: PreSonus FIREBOX
Video:
AOC 22"
Dell UP2715K
Storage:
SanDisk SSD PLUS 240GB (System)
Samsung 830 Series 256 GB (System Windows / Dualboot)
Samsung 850 EVO 1 TB
Variety of WD disk for Backup etc.
PSU: be quiet! BN253 Dark Power Pro 850W
Case: Nanoxia Deep Silence rev. 5
External Storage: Pegasus Promise R6
Drivers64uefi: EmuVariableUefi-64.efi
FSInject-64.efi
HFSPlus-64.efi
OsxAptioFix2Drv-free2000.efi
OsxFatBinaryDrv-64.efi
The Problem:
Since I've been working a lot with a thunderbolt Raid I like to bring from work to continue working at home, adding Thunderbolt support to my Hackintosh was essential for me. Sadly, Gigabyte stopped producing their own Thunderbolt add-in Card, so i was unable to get one; i tried then switching to an asus board, but those just kept dying on me for no reason (just a bad batch i guess?), so in pure despair, and after asking Gigabyte support, which recommended using the HP add-in Card, I just plugged my Asus ThunderboltEx Card in my Gigabyte board, and guess what, it worked instantly. At least at the beginning.
The Add-In card was recognized in UEFI as once as "Intel Thunderbolt" and, after research, configured with the following settings:
Thunderbolt - enabled
Security - Legacy
PCIe Cache-line Size: 128
Ignore TB Option Rom - Enabled
SwSMI Delay - 10ms
Device IO Resource Support - Enabled
Reserved mem per phy Slot - 1024
Reserved PMem per phy Slot - 1024
Reserved Memory - Maximum
Reserved IO per phy slot - 48
The Raid popped up in Finder instantly after reboot, as well as in system information (under SAS, as expected). Thunderbolt Kexts were deleted, as i read they aren't needed in Hackintosh since it's detected as SAS anyway.
My Problem: I'm working with FCPX, having a rather large library on my raid. Cutting works flawless 99% of the time, but everytime i start an action which includes writing lots of files (like rendering, exporting), the progress bar just stop; from this moment on, i can no longer address the raid at all. All Apps acessing the raid are frozen, most of the time they cant even be closed. I can still create a folder using the finder, but once i try to delete or rename it, its gone forever; the system wont shutdown (since it cant disconnect the raid) and even worse, once i force shutdown it, the raid won't shutdown automatically like its supposed to be, neither can it be shutdown using the power button, so im forced so disconnect the power, which is certainly not the best option for a raid holding 10tb of really important data...
Why is this a Hackintosh problem? Because I have no problem Copying, rendering or doing whatsoever using my Macbook or my Dualboot Windows, which is my workaround right now, but using my 2011 macbook for rendering is not the whole idea of a 2000€ system...
Things ive tried: Removing All Other PCI Cards, almost every setting in UEFI, trying it with Thunderbolt Kexts installed, trying diffrent PCI slot, checked of course file integrity, checked raid status with promise utility, tried to find anything in systemlog (doesnt seem to mention anything)
Right now im rather clueless. It seems to be some problem with a buffer overloading, maybe it's a problem with the ram fragmentation under x99 systems? (Trying to write to ram where its not supposed to once its starting to fill?); I can't see the settings being at fault, since they work allright under windows); right now im mainly blocked, because i don't no how to do future troubleshooting (like using the information of any crashlogs etc...) so im really hoping for any advice
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