K7T266 Pro2 v2.0, hard disk 160GB

Hello.
Does anyone know, what is the maximum size of hard disks for the K7T266? According to http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/hdd_support/hdd/spt_hdd_list.php?CHIP=Archives&ID=4, at least 160GB drives are supported, and I would expect (!!! I didn't test it !!!), that 250GB disks will work as well. But I'm going to by a 300GB disk. So the question is: Is such a big hard disk supported at all? And if not, what will happen? Will the board e.g. only support the first 256GB or will the 256GB be substracted from the capacity (thus only making 44GB available to me)? If anyone has tested this already, please tell me.
Regards, Bodo

There are two inter-related areas with regard to drives that exceed this capacity barrier (137Gb). One is the need for 48bit LBA within windows to have partitions greater than this size (ie at least SP1 and possibly updated ATAPI driver version or SP2) and the other is to have a BIOS that is itself able to address a drive of that size.
If you board/bios has 48bit LBA (ie it can handle drives greater than 137Gb) then it can handle HDD sizes as per the following link.
http://www.48bitlba.com/
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