Is FCE 3.5 able to use a 2TB external hard drive for capture?

Having strange problems capturing on my newest (& biggest) external drive, a 2 TB G-raid.  Even if I set the G-raid as the only scratch drive, FCE captures to the Mac hard drive.  I am now getting past the midpoint of this drive's capacity, that is there's already about a terabyte of footage on it.  Is there an upper limit of drive size FCE will handle?
I've tried moving the newly-captured footage over to the G-raid in Finder and deleting it from the Mac HD but then get into difficulty with what seem to be spurious and intractable "media offline" messages. 
Not sure if this is inherent in the software or if I maybe have a bad external drive (it's only about 9 months old.)  Or other possibilities?
I'm thinking about reformatting the big drive into 2 volumes - the footage is backed up on other drives - but that's a long run to reload all the data unless there's some likelihood it will work...
Any ideas?
Thanks,
ss

Thanks for input, Dick.  Connection has been via 800FW only.  It's been a frustrating 3 days, but I'm beginning to think drive/volume size was a red herring.  Not only is FCE 3.5 unable to deal with this drive, but Finder on the OS X 4.11 has been unwilling to do a simple transfer of its files to another drive. A 3-month-old clone of my boot drive worked exactly the same as the current version on these tasks, that is, not very well.
Right now I am moving ~650GB of the same video clips from my only working backup drive (a 750 GB 400FW Seagate FAP) to a 1TB USB drive converted from Windows format for the occasion.  Not for editing, just for a second backup...  It's chugging along slow & steady.
Time to talk to my friends at G-Tech.   I believe this drive is under 3-year warranty...   :-)
Sharron

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