usb sata ssd not working on pi4

Orico HDD enclosure 2189U3-BK-BP. too bad. It was on sale I should've maybe just spent 5 bucks more and gotten something that works. (maybe that one would also not work?) The jms578 and jms579 JMicron chips I think aren't compatible. Its slower than running off a micro sd unfortunately and other times it just doesn't boot up.

Forum post about a fix involving disabling UAS USB SATA cable fix by leepsvideo on youtube

his fix involves using lsusb to get the numbers to add to the /boot/cmdline.txt (spaces are fine but no newlines.) what i would put for the orico (it still didn't work)

usb-storage.quirks=0080:a001

I think I read somewhere that the Pi boots from the blue USB ports only maybe Il try the other ones and see if that works, then maybe a powered hub before giving up and returning it.. or maybe il see if i can run linux mint on my other computer with it

Yeah I was right

I got it to work on the other USB ports but not reliably on the blue ones