Aperture import does not see/recognize external drive

I've searched quite a bit for an answer to this and have come up empty, so I apologize in advance if I simply missed it.
I am having issues with Aperture not showing a couple external drives in the Import view. It recognizes my iphones, ipad, SD cards, but not these three external SATA drives, which are formatted NTFS. The OS sees them as they appear in Finder and I can browse them just fine.
Any ideas?

I've been using this application without incident for
several weeks now; coming over or rather
transitioning from WIN7 and Lightroom to
MAC OS and Aperture; Aperture is the best DAM
I've seen but a little light as a raw image file processor
IMHO (so far..that is..I have a whole two weeks of
working with A3 and nearly 5 years with LR)
Anyway's I'm referencing files on the TC and importing
into the Aperture library..there is simply no sign of the import
browser at the bottom of the import screen.. I wonder if the
10.7.1 LION update broke something as I did do that update a
few nites ago and have not tried any imports for a few days..
just noticed this today as the other poster evidently did..
I'm going to try a simple import from a USB thumb drive to see if that works..

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