USB Quirks seem not to work for me

[mditexts]

Hi, I just bought an RPi 4 to replace my previous RPi 3, which was booting from an USB SSD (Kingston A400 SSD SA400S37/120G, https://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B01N6J ... UTF8&psc=1), enclosed in an old USB case (Digitus DA71104 Box USB 2.0, https://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B01M1B ... UTF8&psc=1).

Having read that RPi4 now can boot from USB directly, I thought to perform my hardware upgrade.
It works out of the box, but I noticed that it takes seconds for the RPi4 to responds to ping requests on the network, even if it takes about 5m20s to boot and respond via ssh.

I found the article about the usb-storage.quirks solution and I tried to apply it to my case, but I was unsuccessful.
So I tried to remove the old casing and replace it with this USB-Sata converter: https://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B07Y82 ... UTF8&psc=1

The lsusb output is the following:

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Bus 002 Device 002: ID 174c:55aa ASMedia Technology Inc. Name: ASM1051E SATA 6Gb/s bridge, ASM1053E SATA 6Gb/s bridge, ASM1153 SATA 3Gb/s bridge, ASM1153E SATA 6Gb/s bridge
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1a40:0101 Terminus Technology Inc. Hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 2109:3431 VIA Labs, Inc. Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

And this is my /boot/cmdline.txt:

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usb-storage.quirks=1a40:0101:u,2109:3431:u dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=tty1 boot=PARTUUID=22b09c07-01 root=PARTUUID=22b09c07-02 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline fsck.repair=yes rootwait quiet splash plymouth.ignore-serial-consoles cgroup_enable=memory cgroup_memory=1

Still it takes more than 5m to boot.

Any suggestion is very welcome, thanks a lot.

[RonR]

You used the ID's of hubs instead of the SATA adapter. Try:

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usb-storage.quirks=174c:55aa:u ...

[mditexts]

Hi, thank you for the reply.

I tried it and still no success. BTW, I tried issuing this command:

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 sudo systemd-analyze blame|head

This was the output:

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 5min 211ms networking.service
          5.112s webmin.service
          5.102s docker.service
          3.605s NetworkManager-wait-online.service
          3.591s apt-daily.service
          3.339s dev-sda2.device
          2.425s ifupdown-pre.service
          2.231s mariadb.service
          1.606s containerd.service
          1.593s udisks2.service

That "5min 211ms networking.service" is eating up all the time...

[lpsw]

You may be experiencing crosstalk between the on-board wifi and the USB3 to SATA cable.
An easy way to test, if you can use ethernet, is to disable wifi in config.txt.

[mditexts]

Hi lpsw, thanks a lot. I tried that, but still no success. I post here the actual result and my setup:

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pi@BlogPi ~ $ sudo systemd-analyze blame|head
      5min 222ms networking.service
         21.092s apt-daily.service
          5.550s docker.service
          4.315s webmin.service
          2.994s dev-sda2.device
          2.638s certbot.service
          2.314s ifupdown-pre.service
          2.153s mariadb.service
          1.892s dphys-swapfile.service
          1.588s udisks2.service
pi@BlogPi ~ $ grep dtoverlay /boot/config.txt
#dtoverlay=lirc-rpi
dtoverlay=disable-wifi
dtoverlay=disable-bt
pi@BlogPi ~ $ cat /boot/cmdline.txt
usb-storage.quirks=174c:55aa:u dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=tty1 boot=PARTUUID=22b09c07-01 root=PARTUUID=22b09c07-02 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline fsck.repair=yes rootwait quiet splash plymouth.ignore-serial-consoles cgroup_enable=memory cgroup_memory=1

Am I doing right?
Still it takes more than 5m with the networking.service.

[mditexts]

I solved it with a solution found here: https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/q ... ernet-wait

Create file (with subdirs)

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/etc/systemd/system/networking.service.d/reduce-timeout.conf

with content:

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[Service]
TimeoutStartSec=1

On my Pi model B (with Minibian) this solution resolved the problem. Pi boot time reduced to 15 sec, and network works.

This worked on my Pi4 with Buster too.

Quirks didn't work at all.