I just read an article that Apple is disabling the TRIM function for third-party SSDs in the Yosemite OS update. kext works only with their own SSD drives, so this hack bypasses the identifier check and allows all SSDs to be supported.Reader Richard Spitzer is concerned about using a third-party SSD drive with his Mac running Yosemite. If the SSD natively supports this, it replies back if it doesn’t support, there is no reply. Then, if it is indeed an SSD drive, it sends yet a second command (the TRIM one) and expects a result.

Initially found on I read that the driver fist checks to see if the drive is of “rotational” or “solid state” type. The secret lies in the updated IOAHCIFamily.kext of Snow Leopard, in the /System/Library/Extensions/ folder, which contains the plugin IOAHCIBlockStorage.kext: the binary of this plugin (in the /MacOS/ folder) when viewed with a hex editor, contains two hard-coded references of “APPLE SSD” that is the string expected to be returned from polling the drive (thus only native support for latest Apple SSDs). Older SSD drives that never supported TRIM by default will not ‘magically’ get TRIM, obviously. kext that recognises any SSD with TRIM support (visible in System Profiler) provided that our own SSD indeed supports TRIM (check with your manufacturer’s specifications and perhaps use the latest firmware update for your SSD drive). With his TRIM Support Enabler (currently at v1.1) we can install and uninstall (i.e.

Now, user cindori from has made it simple for newbies and experienced users alike: a tool that enables and disables TRIM support for Snow Leopard users (10.6.6 or newer) with SSD drives in their computers (original Apple hardware as well as hackintosh systems). kext that controls the AHCI SATA controller was updated with TRIM support, even since 10.6.6, apparently only for Apple-ordered SSD drives that had the identifier “APPLE SSD” (visible from System Profiler > Serial-ATA). Although it’s now widely publicised in the hackintosh community, a couple of months ago (March 2011) with the release of the Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.7 update (especially for new MacBook Pro laptops) a couple of people with good knowledge of programming reported that the.

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