For several years I have connected an Other World Computing Thunderbay 4 (Thunderbolt 2 version) to one port of my 2015 27" iMac while connecting a 1080p second monitor to the other Thunderbolt 2 port via a TB 2 to DisplayPort cable.
I tried daisy-chaining the second monitor to the 2nd port of the Thunderbay 4 enclosure. When I plugged it in, it worked just fine. When I put my iMac to sleep and came back a few hours later, the iMac woke up, but neither the iMac screen nor the external monitor would come back to life. But, if I unplugged the 2nd monitor from the Thunderbay enclosure and reconnected the display directly to the iMac, after about a 30 second delay, both screens lit. I did this a number of times, and it is reproducible.
Is this kind of daisy-chaining not someone one should be able to do?
[The real motivation behind the question is that I'm ordering a 2020 27" iMac, and I want to connect a TB3 external drive to one TB3 port, and want to be able to use the other port for both the TB2 Thunderbay enclosure and the 2nd monitor, but if I can't wake up the screens, that isn't going to be able to work. Which leaves me hosed in terms of what I want to be able to do with the new iMac, when it arrives]
I tried daisy-chaining the second monitor to the 2nd port of the Thunderbay 4 enclosure. When I plugged it in, it worked just fine. When I put my iMac to sleep and came back a few hours later, the iMac woke up, but neither the iMac screen nor the external monitor would come back to life. But, if I unplugged the 2nd monitor from the Thunderbay enclosure and reconnected the display directly to the iMac, after about a 30 second delay, both screens lit. I did this a number of times, and it is reproducible.
Is this kind of daisy-chaining not someone one should be able to do?
[The real motivation behind the question is that I'm ordering a 2020 27" iMac, and I want to connect a TB3 external drive to one TB3 port, and want to be able to use the other port for both the TB2 Thunderbay enclosure and the 2nd monitor, but if I can't wake up the screens, that isn't going to be able to work. Which leaves me hosed in terms of what I want to be able to do with the new iMac, when it arrives]
