Acroname Hub 3c with MDS 5.1

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Equipment Needed:

  1. Acroname 3c Hub purchased with MDS support
  2. 6 USB-C cables that support USB 2 and USB-PD. Do not use cables that support USB 3 or later. The white USB-C charge cables that come with Mac laptops can be used.
  3. Mac with Apple Configurator 2 and MDS installed.
  4. Up to 5 Apple Silicon Macs that are need to be erased.

Instructions

  1. Download MDS 5.1 build 50031 or later
  2. Install or Upgrade MDS to the downloaded version
  3. Connect the Mac running MDS 5 to port 0 on the Acroname hub using a USB-C 2 cable that support USB-PD.
  4. Connect up to 5 additional Mac Apple Silicon systems to port 1-5 on the Acroname hub using a USB-C 2 cable that supports USB-PD.
  5. Open MDS and select Apple Silicon and iOS USB-C Restore
  6. Select the Acroname Hub tab
  7. Select all devices and select Put in DFU mode.
  8. Verify all devices are listed and then select Restore. If any devices are not listed by model identifier, select the missing Mac and select Put i DFU Mode.

Monitoring Progress

When the devices are restoring, the follow progress can be observed:

  1. The macOS image is expanded to a folder starting with restore_bundle_ for each restored Mac and each folder will be about 15 GB. You can open /tmp, turn on Calculate All Sizes in the Finder for the /tmp folder, and watch the size of each folder increase. This usually takes 1 to 2 minutes.
  2. Once the image is expanded, the Mac systems will reboot and show an Apple logo and progress bar. Within 5 minutes, all progress bars should be showing some activity.
  3. Each Mac system adds about 8 minutes for the restore time. For 5 Macs, restore time should be about 35 minutes.