Final Cut Pro X - Resource Drives Missing

Final Cut pro X is unable to simultaneously access multiple mounted Firewire 800 drives in a chain... While internal drives are always accessible...
http://youtu.be/MNCfTsxJUcw
Any ideas, reasons, and/or solutions are appreciated...

     On any of those 5 drives you tested Tom did you by any chance have an EXACT duplicate event folder? Because in my case FCPx will display exact copys of PROJECTS on two drives but it will NEVER display two exact copys of EVENT folders.
    If I unmount a drive it will show the events on the remaining drive. If I unmount the drive FCPx just fininshed using (and finding the event folder) and remount the second drive FCPx will then see the event folder and happily use that data. FCPx will NEVER display both event folders if they are both mounted.
     If it was a problem with the Firewire bridge as you claim then I would not expect FCPx (or for that matter even OSx) to be able to see both project folders at the same time.
Screen capture shows two drives. Finder can display both Project AND Event folders. FCPx can display both project folders but will only display ONE drives Event folder at a time ..... ???

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