How large a HD can go in my external firewire enclosure?

I realize this is not actually a Mac product, but rather a Made for Mac product, but here goes anyway. I have an older Fantom Drives external firewire drive that I bought for G4 which moved to my G5. It is about 120gb. I am curious how large a drive and what type I can put in this enclosure. Here is the info from system monitor, if that helps:
OXFORD IDE Device:
Manufacturer: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd.
Model: 0x1
GUID: 0x30E034E002102E
Maximum Speed: Up to 400 Mb/sec
Connection Speed: Up to 400 Mb/sec
Sub-units:
OXFORD IDE Device Unit:
Unit Software Version: 0x10483
Unit Spec ID: 0x609E
Firmware Revision: 0x137
Product Revision Level:
Sub-units:
OXFORD IDE Device SBP-LUN:
Capacity: 115.04 GB
Removable Media: Yes
BSD Name: disk4
OS9 Drivers: No
S.M.A.R.T. status: Not Supported
Volumes:
Firewire HD:
Capacity: 114.91 GB
Available: 80.19 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk4s3
Mount Point: /Volumes/Firewire HD

You can probably google Fantom + Oxford but... my guess is it may not have the firewire bridge support for 48-bit LBA to use large drives.
And it most likely needs a firmware update if possible. When Tiger came out many needed such updates.
Instead, I'd just get a new Oxford 934 FW case from OWC with FW800/400 USB2.
Insures less trouble and with work with current OS.

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