NanoPi NEO fails to detect USB device at restart

First up, I did have a good dig around but couldn't find anything discussing my problem but if there is a thread already existing please just link to it, no need to get huffy.

I have a problem with armbian on NanoPi NEO where USB devices are not properly detected at start up (warm or cold start).

Armbian version details:

BOARD=nanopineo
BOARD_NAME="NanoPi Neo"
BOARDFAMILY=sun8i
VERSION=5.67.181115
LINUXFAMILY=sunxi
BRANCH=next
ARCH=arm
IMAGE_TYPE=nightly
BOARD_TYPE=conf
INITRD_ARCH=arm
KERNEL_IMAGE_TYPE=zImage

I have also tried nightly build Armbian_5.65_Nanopineo_Debian_stretch_next_4.14.78.img.

The problem as seen from syslog:

Nov 26 08:29:20 localhost kernel: [    3.093697] usb 6-1: new full-speed USB device number 2 using ohci-platform
Nov 26 08:29:20 localhost kernel: [    3.285722] usb 6-1: device descriptor read/64, error -62
Nov 26 08:29:20 localhost kernel: [    3.585689] usb 6-1: device descriptor read/64, error -62
Nov 26 08:29:20 localhost kernel: [    3.881816] usb 6-1: new full-speed USB device number 3 using ohci-platform
Nov 26 08:29:20 localhost kernel: [    4.073774] usb 6-1: device descriptor read/64, error -62
Nov 26 08:29:20 localhost kernel: [    4.373768] usb 6-1: device descriptor read/64, error -62
Nov 26 08:29:20 localhost kernel: [    4.481838] usb usb6-port1: attempt power cycle
Nov 26 08:29:20 localhost kernel: [    4.985772] usb 6-1: new full-speed USB device number 4 using ohci-platform
Nov 26 08:29:20 localhost kernel: [    5.401757] usb 6-1: device not accepting address 4, error -62
Nov 26 08:29:20 localhost kernel: [    5.589770] usb 6-1: new full-speed USB device number 5 using ohci-platform
Nov 26 08:29:20 localhost kernel: [    6.005759] usb 6-1: device not accepting address 5, error -62
Nov 26 08:29:20 localhost kernel: [    6.005887] usb usb6-port1: unable to enumerate USB device

I am attempting to connect a USB hard disk to the NanoPi NEO and have it mounted via fstab at boot.  The problem occurs with either a bus powered USB hard disk (Toshiba brand) but also using a separately powered USB SATA bridge.  Once armbian has completed boot and I can logon, plugging in the USB disk drives shows them correctly detected and they can be manually mounted.

The problem does not occur when using nanopi-neo-core_sd_friendlycore-xenial_4.14_armhf_20181011.img from friendlyarm download site.

Any suggestions as to how to fix this?  Please do not say "it's your power supply".  Power supply is not the problem.