Make Intel Optane SSDs Hackintosh Compatible

1. Required Software

• Xiasl-Win64 Here
• OCAT-Win64 Here
• Working OpenCore EFI
• Laptop Used — ASUS Vivobook Gaming (F571GT)

This is the quick and free way to disable Intel® Optane™ Memory H10 via the SSDT patch.

2. Identifying the Optane SSD

• Intel® Optane™ exists on two devices, i.e. one device with two drives present at the same time.
• First open Device Manager and find Disk Drives and Storage Controllers.

Disk Drives

Storage Controllers

• All we need to do is find out which of these two devices is Intel® Optane™ Memory and get its BIOS device path.
• In Disk Drives, generally the one ending with O is the Optane. (In our case — INTEL HBRPEKNX0202AO). See and note the last two digits of the Value (In our case it’s EA).

Identifying Optane SSD

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

3. Identify Storage Controller and get BIOS device-path

• Open Device Manager.
• Go to Storage Controllers -> Select the first Standard NVM Express Controller -> Details
• Click last known parent property and Check the last two digits of the value and make sure it matches with the one of Disk Drives. (In our case it’s EA)

Matching Optane storage with its matching Controller

• Now, once we identified the correct one, in the same Standard NVM Express Controller, now copy the BIOS id value from BIOS device name property in the similar way.

BIOS Device Name

4. Writing methods for the Device

• The binary renaming of ACPI is not covered here.
• 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!

Xiasl-editor

• Open the software Xiasl-Win64 and load the SSDT-Optane-Disable.dsl file into it. File Here
• Paste the copied BIOS-id value and replace the existing BIOS-id with the new one. Save it.
• Finally, compile to get your .aml patch.

5. ACPI Final Steps

• Go to OpCore-Simplify -> Results -> EFI -> OC -> ACPI
• Delete SSDT-Disable_NVMe_RP11.aml & SSDT-Disable_NVMe_RP09.aml
• Now copy the created SSDT-Optane-Disable.aml and paste it into the ACPI folder -

Pasting the created .aml file in the ACPI

6. Finalizing using OCAT (OpenCore Auxiliary Tool)

• Open OCAT and load the config.plist from OpCore-Simplify -> Results -> EFI -> OC
• In ACPI freshly add the SSDT-Optane-Disable.aml that we created and set it’s value to true also check the box.

Final Saving of ACPI in OCAT

Save it and exit. Enjoy!!

Credits

• Original patching method inspired by various Hackintosh community forums and CSDN Blog.
• Written & compiled by Biraj Sarkar