Partition Size Limit in Boot Camp Assistant?

I have a 27" iMac (current model) with 3TB Fusion Drive. The iMac has been restored from a backup from another computer.
I am now trying to install Boot Camp. When prompted to create a partition, I am limited to a 98GB partition for the Boot Camp drive. Why???
It's almost as if it's see only the SSD portion of the Fusion Drive as potential for the Boot Camp partition, but my understanding is that none of the SSD will be used for the partition.
Is there any other reason this would be happening? I've seen the issues about the 3TB limits with earlier versions of the OS, but these should be fixed now. No?

Apologies for delay. Here's the whole dump:
diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2: Apple_CoreStorage 120.5 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *3.0 TB     disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2: Apple_CoreStorage 3.0 TB     disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk1s3
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *3.1 TB     disk2
/dev/disk5
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0: GSP1RMCHPXFREO_EN_DVD *3.3 GB     disk5
/dev/disk6
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            Boot Camp              *1.4 GB     disk6
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=121332826112; sectorsize=512; blocks=236978176
gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 236978175
      start       size index contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40 409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640 235298960      2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
235708600 1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
236978136          7
236978143         32         Sec GPT table
236978175          1         Sec GPT header

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