NVMe Driver now available !!! Download and enjoy.

12/14/2015

Thanks again to JimJ740.

There will be a thread at MR, but also feel free to post results here.

I have tried in both cMP 5,1 in a PCIE slot, and via TB in a 6,1 nMP.

It's faster in 5,1, by the way. But a hack with PCIE 3 should show some nice numbers. And if the Hack were to be based on a board with NVMe support via EFI, may even boot from it.

36 Comments

iStig

12/15/2015 08:35:19 am

Thank you !

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/40896256/Hackintosh/MB/Asus/Z170%20PRO%20Gaming/i750.png

driftwood

12/15/2015 10:21:54 am

Its blindingly fast on a Samsung 951 m.2 used with a Gigabyte Gaming G1 mono :-) 1500mbps with / 2000mbps Read.

Mork vom Ork link

12/15/2015 10:32:57 am

Just copied that new NVME.kext to my CLOVER EFI partition into the kext folder, restarted, Carbon Copy cloned my EL CAPITAN from Samsung SM951 to a new SAMSUNG SM950PRO NVME drive, restarted... and guess what: it works perfectly.

Got a well improved stable system now running El Capitan 10.11.2. Well done and a big Thank You to the developer

Hans

4/18/2016 04:20:39 am

Hello, can you make your machine sleep?

Gvo3D

12/15/2015 01:25:58 pm

Good news! I have 950 Pro ! just tested on gigabyte x99 ud4 ! all OK!

But speed in Disk Speed Test about 700 / 700 because of M 2 on x99 ud4. Waiting for PCI X4 adapter

MVC

12/15/2015 03:22:55 pm

Great news ! Glad it is working for people.

Boil

12/16/2015 04:42:43 pm

So, does this mean I can get an Asus Maximus VIII Impact mini ITX motherboard with a connected Intel 750 Series 2.5" NVMe SSD to actually BOOT OS X?

I want to use the 400GB model of aforementioned SSD as my sole system drive…

MVC

12/16/2015 04:57:54 pm

Sounds like you're asking in regards to a Hackintosh setup. No idea, we do not use Hackintoshes whatsoever.

Boil

12/16/2015 05:02:52 pm

Sorry if any confusion on my part, I originally found out about these drivers from a Hackintoh-specific website…

http://www.tonymacx86.com/general-help/173230-nvme-hackintosh-2.html#post1167738

http://www.tonymacx86.com/hardware-troubleshooting/181231-el-capitan-nvme-driver-macvidcards-com-works-gigabyte-gaming-g1-m-2-a.html

faceoff

12/28/2015 07:44:51 am

At my mac pro late 2013 with thunderbolt expander from sonnet do not work with intel p3700. At PCI device revealed but in field of driver say "no". Trying to install it with kext installer same thing. After rebooting it disappear from pci list.

MVC link

12/29/2015 03:33:15 pm

Hmm, I tested with Samsung NVMe in 2013 nMP via Sonnet, worked fine. Make sure that you installed the kext properly and used the terminal command to fix perms.

faceoff

1/26/2016 02:24:53 am

I use 3 various kext installers, when I try to use terminal command (that going with driver in faq.txt) to fix perms its says that: user name invalid and so on. So I use fix permission from utilities and they give it system permission all, all other users read.

AppleIIGuy

12/29/2015 09:55:43 am

So i can confirm hacks with nvme support in the bios can boot from NVMe drives.

http://i.imgur.com/ea2wKLr.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/hcfbwiX.jpg

Ted Choi

1/13/2016 12:43:35 pm

I'm trying to install a Samsung 950Pro in a Mac Pro 5,1 (upgraded from 4,1) running yosemite 10.10.5 using the lycom PCIe adapter in x16 slot (i think it's slot3, slot4 has video card?).

The kext is moved into /Library/Extensions but I am unable to set root.wheel ownership. The chown command errors with "chown: –R: illegal user name".

Is the driver compatible with yosemite? Any advice what to try?

shine

4/21/2016 09:55:13 am

I have the same exact error message. Did you ever find out why this is happening?

MVC

4/21/2016 03:17:24 pm

As stated on the download page we are not the developer of the NVME driver, we simply host it for him. The developer is JimJ740 on the MacRumors forums, if you have questions regarding the driver you can direct them to him.

magnifico

1/14/2016 12:24:17 am

good news , now try

Del

1/21/2016 02:59:21 pm

Anyone get the 950 to work in TB? I have 950 NVMe and 951NVMe .
The 951 works great 1200MB/s write and 1200MB/s read.
However it see the 950 and does not load the driver.
The 950 is works in PC.

Nikita

3/5/2016 04:33:26 am

Hi there! Have the same issue.
nMP 6,1 + Sonnet Echo Express III-d + some china nvme key.M to pcie (tried two different) - and nothing happens...

The system doesn't even boot if the chassis is connected via thunderbolt cable (or if the card is installed).

ibuick link

1/24/2016 09:31:23 pm

Intel DC P3600 installed and run perfect in nMP. thanks a lot!

Alexey Gaptar link

10/13/2016 12:41:06 pm

you connect Intel DC p3600 to mac??? how?now i buy 2 drive and macos dont see drive(

Spacedust

11/23/2016 09:08:26 am

Is it possible to boot Windows 7 from DC P3600 on Mac Pro ? I'm running Areca ARC-1882IX with 8x300 GB SSD drives right now, but it slows booting like hell.

Martin

3/9/2016 09:25:53 am

Samsung 950 working well on a Mac 3.1 in with a Sedna interface card. Thanks for the driver!

magnifico

3/13/2016 04:52:41 am

HI MVC , please i have little problem , on Yosemite work perfect , i have installed kext in 10.10 folder ) but with EL have a big problem , when shout down pc , him restart and have KP on kext look please

Sat Mar 12 10:03:48 2016

*** Panic Report ***
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff8013effb5c): "waitq deadlock - waitq=0xffffff81fc3f2e00, cpu=0\n"@/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/xnu/xnu-3248.30.4/osfmk/kern/waitq.c:2742
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff9208f4bd60 : 0xffffff8013edf792
0xffffff9208f4bde0 : 0xffffff8013effb5c
0xffffff9208f4be20 : 0xffffff8013effe5e
0xffffff9208f4be40 : 0xffffff7f96c34abc
0xffffff9208f4be70 : 0xffffff7f96c35f5b
0xffffff9208f4beb0 : 0xffffff7f96c35d90
0xffffff9208f4bef0 : 0xffffff80144b6ef6
0xffffff9208f4bf40 : 0xffffff80144b4d61
0xffffff9208f4bf80 : 0xffffff80144b4e56
0xffffff9208f4bfb0 : 0xffffff8013fccf77
Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
com.MinnowStor.NVMeGeneric(1.0)[27312503-CF2F-3E2B-8D8D-6E79177410C9]@0xffffff7f96c30000->0xffffff7f96c3cfff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.9)[F398CE94-0FBD-3E8E-A7AB-55F7F05A81ED]@0xffffff7f9472c000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily(2.1)[DC1AAB7C-F417-3238-BB3F-2A5B84D67B90]@0xffffff7f9464c000

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Boot args: -v kext-dev-mode=1 nvda_drv=1

Mac OS version:
15D21

I want to understand, you think the kext should not go into 10.11 clover folder, but in LE, maybe he's the problem I have?

MVC

3/14/2016 02:48:15 am

Alex Samorukov link

4/15/2016 04:39:59 am

Hi,

I am one of the smartmontools authors. We implemented NVMe support in the smartctl/smartd for the Linux/FreeBSD/Windows. I can add OSX support as well, but i did not found any ioctl description for your driver. Could you please open it? If yes, please let me know or open ticket on the smartmontools.org web site.

carmine parisi

4/15/2016 11:27:51 am

So you work on new kext?

CHeng

4/17/2016 08:56:22 pm

Hi, i cannot boot with this driver installed in neither /CLOVER/kexts/10.11 or /L/E, there's a cross on the screen then reboot, but i can boot from my SD without the driver

Hans

4/18/2016 04:18:49 am

Did the owners of Samsung 950 Pro plugged into M.2 slot like in Rampage V achieved successful sleep on that hackintosh? I can't achieve sleep in mine?

Allen

4/21/2016 09:07:56 pm

No luck with sleep here -- getting "System sleep prevented by H000" logged. Believe a few other folks are as well.

That said, this is nothing to complain about. Driver is awesome, as is booting from NVMe on X99. Thanks Jim, and thanks MVC!

bert

5/27/2016 12:18:18 am

Has anyone luck with the Intel 750 PCI card ?

PaulB

1/10/2017 10:38:26 am

OUTSTANDING!!! I now have a 256GB NVMe SSD on my Mac Pro 3.1

I have to manually load/unload the kext to avoid kernel panic but that's not a big issue.

Getting 700MB/s but my Mac only has PCIe v2.

Still way faster than any other drive in my Mac.

THANK YOU!!

Shad

3/5/2018 04:27:22 am

Is there a solution to run the Intel 750 PCIe on a Mac Pro 4.1 or 5.1?

Shad

3/8/2018 10:26:53 am

Still about installing the SSD Intel 750 PCIe on a 4.1/5.1 Mac Pro with Mac OSX High Sierra.

Is that possible to make accepting NVMe on the Mac Pro?

Jason Brown

3/4/2020 02:14:53 pm

Where is tonymacs NVME driver released for OS X 10.10.5
at link http://www.macvidcards.com/nvme-driver.html
or on tonymacx86 both these links fail is there updated links where I can get this old driver from 2015

Mark

12/2/2022 01:33:16 pm

I too need this driver. I am running a 5,1 with 10.10.5 and will pay $$$ if necessary to get this driver.

Please advise.

NVMe Driver now available !!! Download and enjoy.

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