I have a drive that won't show up in Final Cut Pro X

Just got FCPX. All of my external hard drives except the one I had reserved for Video show up inside FCPX.
Actually, if I reboot and open FCPX it shows up for an instant, then disappears.
The drive itself shows up on the desktop and behaves normally. It's formatted the same way as the others
(Mac OS Extended (Journaled)) that do appear within FCPX. Curious.
Went through AppleCare, created New User test account, still disappears from FCPX.
So they deduce there's a problem with the drive. They suggest re-ordering the firewire chain, but easier
said then done. There are some USB drives involved too.
Anyone ever experienced this issue?
Oh yes, I re-downoaded FCPX from the Apps Store and everything behaves the same way.
james in St. Pete

I'd like to thank everyone who contributed. What happened earlier today was, I copied everything of my "Video" drive which took hours, and then reformatted it. After that, it showed up in FCPX, not really caring what I named it. Perhaps Tom W. is correct about it looking what's on the top level of the drive. At this point though, there was nothing on the disc. Anyhow, I thought I had it licked. I went off to do a job tonight, came home, and now my PHOTO drive is strangely corrupted. It's 3TB. It won't let me add anything to it and it says it can't be repaired, that I must reformat it. So I took a look on my TimeMachine Backup drive (another 3TB) and the PHOTO drive which I thought had been backed up wasn't there. It will let me copy the files to another drive, so in 6 or 7 hours, I imagine I'll have the files copied, so I can reformat the drive for PHOTOs. What the heck is going on?
And in the meantime, two more drives have disappeared from the list of drives from within Final Cut.
So, thanks everyone, but I just may have to find a bridge to jump off...

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