Wrapup: as soon as I found a hdd/ssd case that truly supported UASP (all my Orico cases are said to support, but none does), creating external fusion had no problems whatsoever.
I noticed fun fact. Slower part of Fusion drive needs to be bigger than faster drive. Tried with 480GB ssd and 320/500GB hdd's.
Hi,
My 2013 iMac is dead so I would like took out the fusion drive, hoping to get the files in it.
I put it into SATA external drive enclosure but cannot read the drive except for the BootCamp partition.
You look done all this hassles so I would like to get advice especially about your comment
"The volumes to be Fusioned has to be first in hfs+!"
This fusion drive was used in iMac with 10.15 Catalina so it should be APFS.
Now I am trying to mount it in MacbookAir with 12.6 Monterey.
This is the result of
> diskutil list
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *3.0 TB disk2
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk2s1
2: Apple_APFS 2.5 TB disk2s2
3: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 499.8 GB disk2s3
4: Windows Recovery 550.5 MB disk2s4
I do see the HDD portion but SSD doesn't show up so I cannot set "RAID Span of Storage" to restore them.
Creating container failes too.
> diskutil apfs createContainer /dev/disk2s2
Creating container with disk2s2
Started APFS operation on disk2s2
Creating a new empty APFS Container
Error: -69614: The disk is already in use by APFS