Time Machine in Mavericks does not recognize previous backups

Hi!
I've just installed Mavericks and Time Machine does not recognize my previously existing backups. Tried reconnecting to my backups and nothing changed (I have used this successfully in the past with Lion). Decided to do a full new backup in another drive, which worked fine, and after deselecting that drive in TM preferences and selecting it again it also does not recognize the new backup and indicates it is going to do a full new backup... Any suggestions?
Besides the problem of not recognizing previous backups, this is problematic for me because I am used to do 2 different TM backups in 2 different locations and it was very easy just to select the corresponding disk in each location and TM would recognize the existing backups and just follow on the incremental backup. Now this seems to be impossible in Mavericks...
Any help will be much appreciated.

FireWire or thunderbolt?
FireWire and thunderbolt HD interfaces seem to be universally affected. I've seen no exemptions yet to same
There is no resolution to this yet, techs are working on it
Its happening on 80% WD Raid My Book on this board and others, and happening entirely on Firewire and Thunderbolt drives and apparently all WD Mybooks
Its seen on O Raid and 1 Raid both alike.
also occurring on LaCie (Seagate) FW drives.
until resolution , use external USB drives proven to work with Mavericks.

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