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sflomenb

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Jul 22, 2011
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Hi, not sure whether or not this belongs here or in the iMac section. Regardless, I have a new MacBook Air and I am trying to use my 2009 27" iMac as an external display.

I have an external Thunderbolt backup drive which I intend to use to backup my MBA. My idea was to daisy chain them. I have the thunderbolt cable plugged into my MBA to the backup drive, and I have a MiniDisplay connector plugged into the second thunderbolt port of the backup drive into my iMac. When I press Command-F2, my iMac's screen goes dark, and my MBA's screen goes blue.

However, when I plug the Mac directly into each other, it works fine.
 
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