New MacBook Pro 15" unable to recognize Hard Drive connected by thunderbolt cable

We have three macs in the house and recently purchased a new MacBook Pro 15" with two thunderbolt connections.
I have a 4TB Seagate HD that has been partitioned into 4 1 TB drives all formatted for MAC OS.  Each Partition is being used for a separate time machine capsule and when I hooked up the new Mac I got that the disk was not recognized and has to be initialized. 
Since the other two macs read it fine I'm not sure that this is a problem with the actual hard drive itself.
I rebooted the New Mac and installed all the updates, but am still having the problem.  It is seeing the drive, but only as 1 4TB partition that needs to be formatted.
Is this a problem with the new mac or is there a simple solution.
Thanks

Sorry my english is not perfect.
I didn't say to turn off the fans. I say you have to increase the speed of yours fans to 3000 rpm, for you realize the intensity of noise emitted by my hard drive. I would like your opinions if my hard drive is normal or not ? I think not, because the noise is very hard, but I would like a confirmation.
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