Daisy Chain a second Monitor to Thunderbolt Monitor

I purchased a new Dell S2040L HDMI Monitor and I would like to Daisy Chain to my Thunderbolt. I plugged the Dell Monitor into the back of the Thunderbolt monitor and my Mac Book Pro (OX Version 10.9.4) will not reconize the Dell monitor as a second monitor. Is there a display setting that needs to be changed?

You could use a USB to DVI converter
<http://eshop.macsales.com/item/NewerTech/VIDU2DVIA/>
but performance will be severly limited by USB and some functions won't work
<http://www.displaylink.com/support/mac_downloads.php>
"Please note: This driver does not support 3D acceleration. Some features of Mac OS X-based applications that require hardware OpenGL acceleration, such as Keynote presentations and iPhoto* slideshows, will not function properly."

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Hi Forum,
I have a rmbp 15 and 2 Dell U2713H screens that I usually connect to my macbook using both TB/DP ports.
Now I need to connect another TB device and looked into using the Daisy Chain option on the screens. Although I get image, it seems to be cloned and MacOS doesn't seem to know that the second screen is there.
My question is, how can I enable Daisy Chain on MacOS?
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Device
rMacbook Pro
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Tiago

I am the OP.
Please see what I found on another thread that answered my question.
I just finished researching this for myself, as I was considering adding to my MacBook Pro (2012) a pair of new Dell U2713H 27" monitors that support DisplayPort-based daisy-chaining.
It looks like Thunderbolt-enabled Macs only support DisplayPort 1.1a which will not allow the kind of MST that you are looking for nor will it enable me to use multiple monitors as I desired. New Thunderbolt chips supporting DisplayPort 1.2 with MST are supposed to be available this year, and so would possibly make it into late-2013 or 2014 Macs.
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