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Connection with Mac Mini 2020 (m1 Big Sur)

8655289
over 4 years ago

I recently got a M1 chip mac mini and I'm attempting to connect my EDGE 1030 units to it but they do not mount. I've tested using 2 different units and 3 different cables. (all three cables work with my older mac), so I suspect some firmware issue won't let the mac mount the edge.

Anybody else have any suggestions?

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to psjoyce

    Do you have the OS 11.1 update? And what firmware do you have on your 1030? Cheers.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to 8655289

    Firmware 11.0 on the 1030 and currently, 11.2 beta on the mini. No problems from the first version of Mac OS with the 1030 and mini

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to psjoyce

    I have now successfully got it to mount by using a USB-C to USB-a adaptor and my garmin cable. Now signing in to garmin expreess is taking forever. Good times

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to 8655289

    See, it was the cable. There is so much conversion going on between the new USB-C ports and the old legacy ports the Edge uses that many things can go wrong. The newer USB-C cables, like lightning cables, even has a bit of electronics in them to make the connector. Not to bug you, just to point out that these newer generations are really more than just a cable although we call them such.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Martin868

    No it wasn't: I used the SAME cable with a USB-a to USB-c adaptor on it. It works via the usbc adaptor usbc port, bot NOT with the cable alone with the usb-a port. Thus the cable is fine.

    This tells me there's something up with the apple firmware on the legacy usb-a ports that's different than the usb-c port.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to 8655289

    Just checked mine. A standard Anker USB A cable worked fine, into one of the two USB-a ports on the mini

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to 8655289

    Respectfully, you don't know what you're talking about when you use the word firmware. 

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Garmin Express crashes when trying to detect an Edge 530 on Mac Mini M1

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Martin868

    So if it works with everything (PC or even older MAC), and it doesn't work with MAC mini, it's still the fault of everything, except Apple? You got something wrong with your thinking.

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    I have a similar issue with an Edge 520.  I have gone through several data cables (usb-c to usb-micro) and when I connect the Garmin to the M1 through the USB-C port it will show in Disk Utilities but will not mount.  Now if I plug in my Selore USB-C expansion dock and then plug in the same usb-c to usb-micro cable to connect the Edge 520 it then works.

    I can figure out why this works through an expansion dock, though it is still USB-C all the way, but it does not work when plugged into any of the USB-C ports on the M1 MacBook.  Initially, I suspected the USB-C ports and Apple's implementation of them, but it only affects the Garmin.

    Did anyone resolve this?