ESATA card w/ drive connected causes Windows 7 bootup to hang

I installed the NewerTech MAXPower eSATA 6G PCIe 2.0 card in slot 2 (PCI Express 2.0) of my Mac Pro (January 2008). My Mac Pro is configured with Mac OS X 10.6.x. It also has 64-bit Windows 7 installed via Boot Camp.
The NewerTech eSATA card works fine with Mac OS X. However, if an external drive connected to the eSATA card is powered ON at the time I natively boot-up to Windows 7, booting up hangs with the following message:
Marvell 88SE91xx Adapter - BIOS Version 1.0.0.1003.
Initializing...
If the external drive is OFF at the time I boot-up Windows 7, boot-up doesn't hang. I get the following message during bootup:
Disk Information:
No hard disk detected!
Then, my Mac Pro continues to boot up into Windows 7; it does not hang. However, I can't use the drive. If I turn on the drive (a LaCie D2 Quadra 1 TB hard drive) after logging into Windows 7, it is not detected by Windows 7. This is different behavior than with Mac OS X. If my LaCie drive was off when I boot-up into Mac OS X, and I turn on the LaCie drive after logging into Mac OS X, the drive is detected properly and shows up in Finder. I also have the OWC Mercury Extreme Pro Qx2. If I turn it OFF prior to booting into Windows 7 (to prevent a hang), and then turn it back ON after booting into Windows 7, then Windows 7 recognizes the Qx2.
So, does anyone have any suggestions on how to bootup Windows 7 natively while an external drive is connected? I reported the problem to OWC and they said that their "engineers are working on it", but it's been weeks, and it seems nothing is being done. BTW, I only tried slot 2 on my Mac. Wonder if it will help to try another slot.
Thanks.

I haven't had any problems using the card other than Windows 7 bootup hanging if an external drive is connected to the card. Do you think it's a good chance that it's an issue with the external drive having the USB/eSATA/firewire interfaces, and not the card itself? Unfortunately, all my external drives (all of which hang during Windows 7 bootup via bootcamp) have the USB/eSATA/firewire interfaces.
I did some write tesing (large video files) using the OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 (4 drives in a RAID 5 config), which has a USB/eSATA/firewire interface. Using the eSATA interface, I was getting 202 MB/sec. Using Firewire 800, I was getting 65 MB/sec. So the eSATA was 202/65 = 3.1 times faster than Firewire 800. So, eSATA is certainly desirable to use. Not sure how much better I'd get with an enclosure that has only eSATA, and whether or not I'd get rid of the Windows 7 "hanging during bootup" bug.... Not an easy test to do given how much these external enclosures cost.
If anyone has any suggestions on alternate eSATA cards that work with Mac OS X SL, Windows 7 (natively via boot camp and via Parallels), let me know. Driverless would be great. I've done a lot of searching around for an ideal eSATA card, but seems that each one has different pros/cons.
thanks.

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