USB Hard drives not detected after restart through powered USB hub

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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After figuring out how to fix my Samba shares access through Windows 11 problem......I have a new but related problem........

Two USB3 WD 4TB hard drives do not get detected again aftter a reboot of my x86_64-OpenWRT install(MSI Cubi N 8GL) while they are attached through a powered USB3 hub, and show up as missing in my mount point devices page in Luci.

They don't show up when I type lsusb. Only show up if I disconnect and reconnect each drive from the powered Hub...

OR:

If they are attached directly to their own USB3 ports they detect properly each reboot of OpenWRT.

I assume this is occuring because the hub keeps the hard drives powered throughout the whole reboot process. Is there any way to force a re-scan/re-detect, but why did it used to work when I was using Windows 10/11 plugged into the same powered usb hub and same usb hard drives?

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Does running usbreset (part of the usbutils package) from the command line help?

If it does, you could try adding the command(s) to /etc/rc.local as a possible workaround.

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The only thing I can try to usbreset is the Powered Hub through that command, but no Hard drives get detected.

edit: I gave up with this, just going to leave them in their own USB ports directly attached.