Importing camera footage to ext HDD issue-

I have my internal drive partioned into three Drives which are all showing up (see images). My external FW drive is mounted in the Finder, and I can see it mounted if I do any Finder dialogue modal operation like import from file from within FCP X.
Problem is I can't see it in FCP X.app panels where it needs to be as an option for importing my footage from camera. I can't seem to create an Event on a drive that is not visible in the FCP X user interface. 
I've seen screen cast of users with Ext drives showing in the Import from Camera window so how do I get FCP X to adopt my ext drive?

It's regular HFS+ drive since I have Time Machine backing up onto it (was going to format as EXFAT for cross platform use but didn't in the end cause I also want to use it for TM backups). Single partition (only).
Disk Ultiity says of it: Mac OS Extended (Journaled) 

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