| Thanks, Steve.
I installed 10.13 on the second partition of my backup disk for my MBP Retina, and immediately I got errors in Ae - one about Test Gear, and another about Beauty Box. I have a bunch of plugs and didn’t try them all. I don’t use Test Gear, but I do use Beauty Box, so I’m hesitating to commit to 10.13 on my MacPro if it’s going to break anything that doesn’t have a fix from the developers.
I have an ATTO card running a SAS RAID5, an ATTO HBA for my SAS LTO drive. BRU PE, the weakest link, has given me a host of nightmares dealing with Apple’s “security” features, which get more draconian and Hieronymus Bosch-ian with every update.
I can’t leave El Cap until I’m damn sure BRU PE (and the other apps and plugs I depend on) will work, and the only way to know for sure is on a test partition. I also have a flashed for Mac Nvidia Titan, and I need to make sure the drivers are OK there before I can leave El Cap as well.
I searched for info on what the firmware update does, but no luck finding anything about my particular situation.
No.
there were a few odd firmware updates, but if its for the mobo just google up info on the updates. none had to do with OS locking.
OTH, everyone else is right in that there is no need to run a dual boot machine and make your life more complicated than it needs to be. there are advantages like newer gpu drivers and there are some app bugs fixed by OS updates.
the only thing 10.13 will want to possibly do is update your drive to APFS which you can ignore for now and do later you want. volumes can be converted from HFS to APFS in a few minutes. APFS works fine on SSD’s, RAID 0/1. Fusion drive support coming - **don’t** create a fusion drive via the command line vers of diskutil. while it will work, the volume may have space allocation issues down the road. wait until apple officially releases it.
otherwise 10.13.5 is pretty solid
S
I have a MacPro5,1 - the last cheese grater model, and I’d like to install High Sierra on a partition that also has El Capitan on it so that I can convert FCPX projects to XML so I can finish projects started in FCPX in Pr and Ae, and work on them on El Capitan, which is working great.
When I started to install High Sierra on my Sierra partition, the installer told me I need to update the firmware. I bailed.
My question is:
If I update the firmware, will it bork my MacPro5,1 so that it will no longer boot from El Capitan?
I’ve searched for an answer, and most people seem to throw fate to the wind and commit to High Sierra forever. I’m not that guy.
Can anybody help, or direct me to some info?
Thanks, Jim C.
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