Hoping someone can help me out.. I have the GB z370 Gaming 5 w Alpine Ridge card, and was trying to see if I could get hot plugging working. My setup went from manageable to worse.
I use a thunderbolt drive enclosure, and a thunderbolt audio device. The thunderbolt audio device gets switched between computers frequently, so my initial solution was to have the thunderbolt audio cable daisy chained to the enclosure, which then went to the computer. This way, while I would need to restart the system, the drives wouldn't get suddenly ejected. (I only had one thunderbolt 2->3 adapter at the time)
In an attempt to get hot plugging working, I used the pre-edited Z370 SSDT on the first page of the thread, installed F10 bios, and follows all configuration settings. When I booted, hot plugging still doesn't work. However, the behavior of thunderbolt is worse now. If I unplug the audio device daisy chained to the drives (but the drives remain plugged in to the computer), the drives will freeze up and eject.
I tried getting a second Thunderbolt 2->3 adapter since I assumed that would fix the issue, but the drives are still disconnecting when I unplug the audio device, even though they each connect separately to the Alpine Ridge card.
Any ideas??? Why did this start happening after I switched to the SSDT?