FCP X not reading camera archives (Unsupported Media, Invalid Directory)

I shot a documentary in May of 2012 and imported the media everytime a card would fill up or at the end of the shoot day. I also created a Camera Archive for each card (we shot Sony PMW-F3 and PMW-EX1). A few clips have gone missing and when I plug in my back-up drive to reconnect the media, FCP X gives me a warning reading "unsupported media or has invalid media directory." I've moved the archives onto my editing RAID and got the same error message. I've trashed all my preferences and tried again - same error message. I then trashed my preferences, deleted the program entirely and redownloaded from the Mac App Store and tried again - same error message.
Has anyone seen this error message before? Any resolution?

Very strange: I plugged the drive into my laptop (MacBook Air, 2011) and the same version on FCP X (10.0.5) was able to read the archives. Not sure what the difference is between my two setups, thankful it worked, now want to know why my MacPro won't read it.
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