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MacMan42

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After having listened to Security Now since probably the beginning, I bought Spinrite 6.1r2 to try on my Macs. (Thank You Steve!!)
I know Steve doesn't have a Mac's, but there may be someone else interested.
I used a Windows laptop to download the file and write to a USB stick.

On an iMac Late 2012 (IvyBridge i5-3330S) it booted and run with no problems.
On an iMac 2017 (KabyLake i7-7700K) it never showed in the Boot Manager.

Two differences on the 2017, are that it has what Apple called a Fusion Drive, which is an 2 TB HDD and a 128 GB SSD joined in a pseudo-RAID.
The HDD is connected to the SATA bus and the SSD is connected to the NVMe PCIe bus
The other difference is that the volume already Boot Camp installed and a Windows partition created.
 
Thanks for your report. The older iMac's success is expected... but you're going to need to wait for SRv7 for that newer machine. It will support UEFI booting and an NVMe driver, neither of which SRv6.1 has.
 
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