Power Mac G4 - 933 - maxium size of second internal hard drive

I have a Power Mac G4 933 Mhz with an existing 60 Gb internal hard drive. I am trying to determine definitively the largest sized internal hard drive I can add in addition to my existing 60 Gb drive.
There are a variety of articles saying 120 Gb is the max, I called Apple Support and they said 80Gb and some places say it can support well beyond 200 Gb.
Any guidance is appreciated.
Thanks.

Just to verify my previous post, I am running a Seagate 250GB IDE drive on the internal bus in a 1GHz DP QS with the 4.3.3f2 Firmware and have had zero issues with this set-up.
The drive shows the full 250GB capacity (actually 232.89GB after its formatted).
Its possible that only the 2002 QS (800, 933, 1.0DP) have this ability, as I have not read about any of the ealier QS machines (733, 867, and 800DP) capable of doing this. I believe the 933 QS is ok, so if your firmware reads right, your probably be in luck.
freddythefreeloader, please let us know if you have any success with this. Thanks.
G4 MDD 1.25GHz DP FW800-ATI 9800 128MB-2GB RAM Mac OS X (10.3.9) G4 Gigabit Ethernet 1.5GHz OWC-ATI 9000 OEM 64MB-1.5GB RAM-Pioneer DVR111D

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[Texas Mac Man's post on large hard drives|http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8646489#8646489]
[Dave Hamilton on BootROM versions and HD support|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1751707&tstart=90]
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Intel 6 Series Chipset:
disk0s1:
Capacity:          209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
BSD Name:          disk0s1
Content:          EFI
MacPro:
Capacity:          119.2 GB (119,197,646,848 bytes)
Available:          75.01 GB (75,012,960,256 bytes)
Writable:          Yes
File System:          Journaled HFS+
BSD Name:          disk0s2
Mount Point:          /
Content:          Apple_HFS
Volume UUID:
Recovery HD:
Capacity:          650 MB (650,002,432 bytes)
BSD Name:          disk0s3
Content:          Apple_Boot
Volume UUID:
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Capacity:          120 GB (119,999,037,440 bytes)
Available:          84.87 GB (84,866,392,064 bytes)
Writable:          No
File System:          NTFS
BSD Name:          disk0s4
Mount Point:          /Volumes/BOOTCAMP
Content:          Microsoft Basic Data
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Product:          6 Series Chipset
Link Speed:          6 Gigabit
Negotiated Link Speed:          3 Gigabit
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Description:          AHCI Version 1.30 Supported
WDC WD7500BPKT-00PK4T0:
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Model:          WDC WD7500BPKT-00PK4T0
Revision:          01.01A01
Serial Number:
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Queue Depth:          32
Removable Media:          No
Detachable Drive:          No
BSD Name:          disk1
Rotational Rate:          7200
Medium Type:          Rotational
Partition Map Type:          GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status:          Verified
Volumes:
disk1s1:
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BSD Name:          disk1s1
Content:          EFI
Data:
Capacity:          749.81 GB (749,812,400,128 bytes)
Available:          329.73 GB (329,727,766,528 bytes)
Writable:          Yes
File System:          Journaled HFS+
BSD Name:          disk1s2
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Content:          Apple_HFS
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