Problems attaching RAID volume to Time Capsule USB

I just got an Icy Dock RAID enclosure and two discs to go with it. I want to attach it to my time capsule and use it as both a network disc and as another back up disc adding extra capacity to my Time Capsule.
I set the dip settings on the back of the enclosure (necessary or not I don't know) and plugged it directly into my laptop. I opened up Apple's disc utility and created a RAID volume. That new RAID volume mounted and I could even go into Time machine setup and see it as a choice for a backup volume. So far so good but I still want the connivence of my wireless backups.
So I ejected the enclosure and plugged it into the Time Capsule's USB connection. It didn't show up as a backup volume or as a network drive. Going into the disc tab of the Time Capsule setup utility I do see the two drives within the enclosure but have no option to erase them or mount them. They just show up as their raw selves as if I hadn't even initialized them into the raid partition.
Now if I dismount the enclosure and plug it back into my computer and break apart the raid volume into two separate discs and plug it back into the time capsule I see each of those appear both as a network volume and an option for backup.
Now of course I could use it that way but I'd prefer to have some redundancy that's why I got the enclosure in the first place. Any ideas how I can get the RAID volume to mount? Or somehow get redundancy using the two discs? If it requires command line instructions I'm OK with that I just don't have any idea of where to start.
Thanks,
peat

So just in case somebody else runs into this problem I wanted to post what I discovered. I had to reformat the drives I installed in the enclosure. Once I did that they were seen as separate drives by my computer and by the time capsule.
I did what I shouldn't have done which is use software to create a RAID drive. These software created RAID drives don't mount on the time capsule as the following thread notes.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9996146
What I should have done and eventually did do is format the drives correctly, set the dip switches for RAID 1, push the reset button on the back of the RAID enclosure and create a hardware RAID device. This hardware device now looks and feels like one drive. It mounts up as a network drive on the time capsule no problem.
Furthermore now that it's a visible network drive I can select it in time machine preferences and use it as my destination drive for time machine backups. It hasn't fully backed up yet but it certainly seems to be working so I think this would contradict the previous post. I am able to hang a drive off my time capsule and "extend" the capacity of my time capsule. I didn't copy over the sparse bundle file so time capsule's starting all over again but I suspect I could have copied it and continued with incremental backups.

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Annalog wrote:
I just purchased a Time Capsule for backing up my Mac Book Pro, and to use as my wireless router. I also have a Western Digital My Book NAS drive that I want to connect to the Time Capsule via an ethernet cable.
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