Can MacPro (1,1) address a 2TB internal HD?

Hello All,
On my MacPro (1,1) recently needed to simply format a disk used elsewhere as part of a RAID device (when returning it to the manufacturer, I so wanted to wipe the data!). The manufacturer had given me the OK to disassemble the RAID device and install all the SATA drives one by one into my MacPro to erase the information. MacPro could see and display the drive in System Information but not in Disk Utility.
I concluded that this was an issue in addressing a larger volume. I had 5 HD's to format, none were visible in Disk Utility. Just following up on the limitations of this MacPro. Since I did not have a handy 3.5" SATA/USB drive cabinet this was the only available option to do the job and MacPro let me down.
So, what is the largest SATA disk addressable by this MacPro- 1TB, 1.5TB?
Any easy way to expand it- perhaps an add on card?
Is running a larger volume it a power issue? Kind of doubt that as I don't think that the larger drives suck any more power than the smaller ones. Rather suspect the support chips on the mother board weren't designed or programmed for that size volume.
I will follow this discussion up with the the fine folks at OWC who seem pretty knowledgable when it comes to upgrades. As HD technology expands, looks the top end of the Mac Pro has been exceeded. Too bad, because my MacPro is still running well.
I've heard of kits that allow internally mounted drives to be RAIDED but this is not something I want to do. My ultimate goal is an external RAIDed backup system and proper backup software to protect my four Macs, preferably running on my Mini. Tried one brand (LaCie 5Big Network Disk) and it was not up to the task- failed out of the box big time. That's for another discussion.
Henry

I concluded that this was an issue in addressing a larger volume.
There is no basis for such a conclusion. Macs have been able to support drives over 2.2TB (including those with 4K block size) since 10.4.6.
There is a long history of Macs NOT stomping on pre-existing foreign file systems, to keep users from destroying perfectly good data that the Mac does not understand. If your drive does not have either an MBR partition Map, or a GUID partition Map, it may be seen as "foreign".
Perhaps reFit or third-party utilities would be able to write a better partition table that the Mac could understand better.

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