A20m Largest Hard Drive Supported

I have a IBM Thinkpad A20m. I now have a 60 Gig Hard Drive in it but I want to know what the largest Hard Drive this Laptop will Support. I have the latest Bios installed by looking at the Lenovo Website Bios Information. I run an External 500 Gig Hard Drive but would like my Internal C Drive to be larger.
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I don`t know what the largest HD size you can put into an A20m. It may be as low as 120GB. However these systems use the older parallel PATA interface and AFAIK the largest available HD of that type is 500GB.
If you want more capacity you can only do it with an external, USB-connected HD. One problem with that is that your system`s USB interface is the older, slower 1.1 standard. If you want to access the drive at USB 2.0 speeds you`ll need to get a PCMCIA card that has USB 2 support, e.g. from Amazon.
Cheers... Dorian Hausman
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