Can't create a RAID set using the Utilities window

Hello! this seems so weird to me. I have 2 new LaCie 500GB drives. I'm working with ProTools (music production) and I need redundancy in terms of data safety, that's the reason for creating a mirrored RAID set. 500 GB should last me for awhile OK. Drives are brand new out of the box. They came formatted as FAT-32, got rid of that and erased and reformatted them as OS extended, journaled. They can be seen in system profiler. They mount and unmount OK. They can each accept and store files and I can retrieve files from them. But I can't join them to create a mirrored RAID set. In the disk utility window, I highlight the icon of either drive and try to drag it into the window but it won't drag. What's going on? I did this just fine with my earlier Lacie 200GB drives and an MBP, what's wrong here?
I have a feeling I'm doing something really basic and really wrong but I can't see it!
Anybody got any ideas? Thanks
Rick

It's subtle; I had the same problem and it took me a month to track it down.
It's not enough to reformat your new drives, you also need to repartition them to either GUID Partition Table or Apple Partition Map. Look and I'll bet your drives, properly formated as HFS+ (Mac, Journaling) are still however showing Master Boot Record as their partition scheme -- you'll need to re-partition them.
You need to use the "Options..." button when partitioning via the Disk Utility. You can choose whichever Map/Table is appropriate for your hardware from the window that opens.
My scheme: copy the data to one, repartition the second, copy the data back onto the second one from the first one, repartition the first one, copy the data back onto the first one from the second, and you should be good to go in setting up your RAID.

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