802.11n Base using USB Raid Volumes?

Hi All,
Got the new Airport base station, pulled out the old one, factory defaulted my three other Airport Express base stations, and then joined them as WDS extenders. All is good. Won't be testing throughput yet all I am still all PPC.
Bought the new base station for the USB disk sharing as I have computers all over the home and this was going to be great to facilitate sharing!
Before it arrived, I purchased a new USB eBOX-U Eight (8) drive enclosure from Firewire Depot (as reviewed by AMUG).
Very nice box for $265. Loaded six new 400GB (newegg.com @ $105/ea.) and a couple of old misc. drives. Formated top two as raid 0, next two as raid 0 and then mirrored the two together (I just went through the worst hard disk crash I've ever had with a stripped 0 volume, I never want to go through this again - 100% data loss).
Anyways, last 2 400GB drives as mirrored raid.
Fire the puppy up and for an overnight backup device, it's perfect. I couldn't use it for encoding video but for going to bed and letting my computer backup cheaply and safely, I am delighted!
So now I'm ready for the new Airport base station, I can share these massive, safe drives over the wireless network and get all of my computers backed-up.
Nope.
The base station refuses to recognize the Macintosh-formated arrays, it only sees one drive and that unusable.
Any ideas? I can't find any prohibitions to such a configuration.
JP
G5 Quad   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

Why doesn't the new base station support Mac software RAID volumes? I can't believe there aren't more people up in arms over this missing functionality. A Mac product not supporting a Mac software configuration? Seems downright silly.

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