Daisy-chaining Dell MST and non-MST display

Hi,
I wanted to connect two screens to my MBP:
1 DELL U2713H (daisy chainable)
1 DELL U2713HM
so I connected the U2713H to my MBP via miniDP and daisychained the U2713HM via DP on the U2713H. I activated DP 1.2 on the U2713H. The whole system started flickering on Win 7 and then crashed Windows so bad that I had to reboot a couple of times before everything worked with only the U2713H connected.
I also tried it on MacOS and here both screens showed a halfway ok picture, but the same one, i.e. MacOS did not recognize the U2713HM only the U2713H
If I understand the specs correctly, everything should work properly. Any idea why it does not work?

Hi, thanks for the answer.
Does that apply to MacOS only or also to Win 7?

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