Make Intel Optane SSDs Hackintosh compatible with SSDT patch

Make Intel Optane SSDs Hackintosh compatible with SSDT patch

Intel® Optane™ exists on two devices, i.e. one device with two drives present at the same time. Kernel panic occurs when booting Hackintosh.

Of course the easiest way is to just replace it with a different brand of solid state drive.

There is a free way to disable Intel® Optane™ Memory H10 via the SSDT patch.

1. First open Device Manager and find Disk Controllers and Storage Drives
   
   All we need to do is find out which of these two devices is Intel® Optane™ Memory and get its BIOS device path.

Usually, the second one is Intel® Optane™ Memory, if you need to be sure, then open diskmgmt.msc and find Intel® Optane™ Memory, usually the 32GB one, and right click on its properties to see who its parent is.

Once you get the name of the parent object, you can identify which storage controller is associated with it.

In the above diagram, the device name is the same, confirming that it is controlling Intel® Optane™ Memory, so let’s get the domain and path defined in the BIOS.

Finally we get the path to the device _SB.PCI0.RP15.PXSX

Next we start writing methods for the device.

Note: If your original DSDT table has a _DSM method already defined for that device, then you need to change the original _DSM method to XDSM or other first using the binary rename method, otherwise two duplicate methods are not allowed!

The binary renaming of ACPI is not covered here.

// Inject bogus class code for NVMe SSD so that native IONVMeFamily.kext does not load
DefinitionBlock("", "SSDT", 2, "hack", "NVMe-Pcc", 0)
{
    External(_SB.PCI0.RP15.PXSX, DeviceObj)
    Method(_SB.PCI0.RP15.PXSX._DSM, 4)
    {
        If (!Arg2) { Return (Buffer() { 0x03 } ) }
        Return(Package()
        {
            "class-code", Buffer() { 0xff, 0x08, 0x01, 0x00 },
        })
    }
}
//EOF

Finally, compile to get the .aml patch and load it into your boot.

Translated from webpage.