Maximum drive capacity recognised by Time Capsule

As my 500GB TC was out of warranty and running out of space I bought a big new drive for it - a 3 TB HItachi. I've got it running but all the system sees is 2.2 Tb.
Not much on google but what I have found is a question as to whether the TC uses 'efi gtp setup or a bios mbr setup'.
Anyone know anything about this that might be useful?

Same here.... Put a 3TB Western Digital in to replace my 1.5TB Seagate drive and it only reports 2.2TB. Lot of fuss and $$ to only pick up .7TB
ERIC

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