Time Machine can't access Airdisks

Hi,
I've got 4 brand new Iomega USB2.0 harddrives hooked up to my Airport Extreme (802.11n). The drives successfully mount on Mac and Vista. However, Time Machine only marks one of these disks as useable. Yet they all have plenty of unused space.
One screenshot says all:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/garrulus/2390560536/
I have found the Airdisk functionality to be both useful and unreliable. Disks that work perfectly one day, don't show up the next, etc... I guess it's mostly a driver/firmware related issue?
Thanks for your feedback.

Well unfortunately I cannot provide and answer, but you can add me to the list of people who have one drive that has the file and one drive that doesn't.
I have two drives:
1) "FUJITSU MHW2120BH"
This is an 120GB 2.5" drive in an external USB enclosure
2) "WD 10EAVS External 1.65"
this is a WD 1TB drive.
I didn't do anything differently for one drive over the other. I attached both drives to a Leopard based machine and configured them for backup through the Time Machine Pref pane. I started a backup to both drives. I then moved them over to an AEBS. The 120GB drive shows up and the 1TB doesn't.
When looking at the directories I see that one drive has the ".com.apple.timemachine.supported" and one drive doesn't. The drive that has the file shows up and the other doesn't.

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