Crucial M4/USB 3.0 mounting problem

Hi!
I've got an issue on my 15" MacBook Pro Retina. I have a 128GB Crucial M4 2.5" SSD in a USB 3.0 enclosure, but the only way I can get it to mount is if I turn the laptop off, plug in the drive and turn the laptop on again. My wife has a mid-2010 15" MacBook Pro and it works ALMOST fine on there. Sometimes it takes a few plugs/unplugs to get it working, but it's about a 80% success rate.
Any help would be hugely appreciated as it's a bit of a pain to shut down and boot up just to get an external drive working.
Thanks!

In case it helps, here is the info for the external drive from System Information.
USB 3.0 SuperSpeed Bus:
Host Controller Location:          Built-in USB
Host Controller Driver:          AppleUSBXHCI
PCI Device ID:          0x1e31
PCI Revision ID:          0x0004
PCI Vendor ID:          0x8086
Bus Number:          0x14
IB-223StU3:
Capacity:          128.04 GB (128,035,676,160 bytes)
Removable Media:          Yes
Detachable Drive:          Yes
BSD Name:          disk1
Product ID:          0x020a
Vendor ID:          0x0dc4 (Macpower Peripherals Ltd.)
Version:           1.00
Serial Number:          1236
Speed:          Up to 5 Gb/sec
Manufacturer:          inXtron, Inc.
Location ID:          0x14a00000 / 1
Current Available (mA):          900
Current Required (mA):          0
Partition Map Type:          GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status:          Not Supported
Volumes:
disk1s1:
Capacity:          209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
BSD Name:          disk1s1
Content:          EFI
29 FILMS:
Capacity:          127.69 GB (127,691,702,272 bytes)
Available:          107.34 GB (107,335,028,736 bytes)
Writable:          Yes
File System:          Journaled HFS+
BSD Name:          disk1s2
Mount Point:          /Volumes/29 FILMS
Content:          Apple_HFS
Volume UUID:          3391F77D-C818-38CC-A65A-0E7EEE7132AD

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