Referenced Master Drive is not recognised

Most of my master images are stored as referenced files on an external hard drive. However , when I connect it to my laptop , Aperture does not recognise it as my referenced library. I use the "locate masters " pane and when I put matched images in the top and bottom of the panes the reconnect and the reconnect all buttons are greyed out. The drive also is showing as "offline " in the top pane.
I am beginning to panic a little as I have 30000 referenced images...Please help.

WHAT MAKE is the drive case?
WD drives are fine, WD MyBook and Passport, not so much.
Some WD cases are built around the drive, it can't be removed or upgraded.
Otherwise it would work fine in OWC Mercury and all their drive cases are fine.
http://www.macsales.com/firewire
Also Sans Digital $29 USB/eSATA metal case (I have two).

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Description of Issue:
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Oh ok, that's fine. I was expecting to go through a first response resolution process. Once the gate keepers realise they're talking to someone who actually knows what they're talking about, it's usually pretty simple to skip through a lot of the script. Once you've got past the gate keepers once, it's usually easy to get a direct number for the actual resolution department.
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