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Solved. The 27" thunderbolt monitor was the earlier model with 3 USB ports. I plugged in a newer one. The kind with USB, FW and the extra Thunderbolt 2 port. Fired right up!!!

Nice old thread. I installed Maintenance. MacBook Pro. 15.4.1.

I got a 2024 Mac mini M4. The plan was to run an old Mac 27" Thunderbolt 2 monitor. with the T2 to T3 adapter. It ain't working. The monitor works when I plug it into an old laptop. I have other old Mac monitors. I will try pairing with my M1 MacBook Pro, before I attempt to use one on the mini...

Scott - very nice. I have an M1 laptop as well. Fewer ports but it’s easy to build up a complex system.

An M1 Mini is running this whole system. Thunderbolt Display is on the right. A Cinema Display is on the left. There's an OWC Dock in there too.

Thanks, DeltaMac. A used power supply arrived today. I have some youtube how to's on the replacement of the power supply. I have suction cups and an OWC tool to remove the front glass. I'll do a remove/replace to see if the power supply is the problem. I don't have enough experience to know the...

My 27" A1407 display won't power up. BUT, the charger cable will charge an old MacBook Pro, that has the right 'old' power connector. Does this mean the power supply is dead? Or, is the logic board dead? Or....something else?

It only has 2 bays.

"... why not go iMac and a 2nd monitor? M1-2-3-4 isn't critical. My MBP with M1 still flies!" Good idea. If you get another Mini, check the drive size. 256G might be too small.

"You can mount s3 mac using additional software..." I'll need a translation of what that means. I have no clue.

OWC ThunderBay 4 mini Four-Bay Thunderbolt External Storage Enclosure with SoftRAID XT for 2.5-inch SATA Drives The magic word now is SATA. IDE are dinosaur bones! S Gilbert - I checked OWC. I always do. I have a 4 drive, a 2 drive and single drive enclosures from them. I can't see any IDE...

Lot's of great suggestions here. I've been using MacTracker for years. I use it regularly to identify a variety of machines and devices.

Satcomer - " I ask because sense the hardware raid it was formatted FAT32 for Windows Machines!" That's true. I got a second enclosure with 4 3.5" drives that are IDE. When I used a drive adapter/usb connector to my iMac the native formatting is 'Fat32'. The LaCie enclosures have their own way...

Nothing was mounting. I pulled the drives. I got them all formatted. They are a set of 4 500Gig IDE drives. All I need now is a 4 drive IDE enclosure. That's an iMac running 10.6.8. I formatted them with Disk Utility.

Satcomer - I hope that’s all it is.