Can you please get a hal debug output, as described on the second half of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingRemovableDevices, watch the log output, and see where it hangs for so long? Since it usually starts in some-three seconds, I guess it just hangs in a single operation instead of being generally slow.
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