GD80: Boot from eSata? (and slow booting)

I recently built a set of workstations for our office with p55 GD80 motherboards.  To do some testing, I wanted to do a clean Ubuntu OS install onto an external drive using eSata.
Here's the issue:
- The motherboard detects the eSata drive during the boot sequence, but it may do so very slowly or even hang (code 0075).  This has been observed on two separate machines.
- The F11 boot menu does not list the eSata drive as a choice to boot from.  Disconnecting the internal drive and removing all other bootable media to try to force it to use the eSata fails with the standard "no boot media" message.
- The drive in questions boots and operates fine when I hook it up to internal SATA (or in my case, via the SATA to eSATA breakout pannel)
Questions:
1: Is the ability to boot from eSata supposed to be a working feature?  These are the first machines where I've had it.
2: Are these issues something that might be fixed by a BIOS update?  (I will update here later with my current bios version when I get into work again, but the motherboards were all purchased from Newegg at the same time in September.)
3: If not, is this a known issue?
Thanks in advance.

You could easily prepare and USB Flash Drive for a safe DOS-based BIOS Flash on any Windows based system and then use then boot from that flash drive on the target board in order to update the BIOS.  These are some pretty straight-forward instructions:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=142371.msg1062484#msg1062484
... and of course, the BIOS File will have a different name for your board and so will the actual flash command.

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