Satellite A40 - What max HDD size is possible

This Satellite A40 has a 40GB 4200RPM drive.
Looking for 120GB and possibly 160GB.
This question is whether I can consider a higer RPM an/or seek time.
What would be the limitations?
Maurice Newsome

Hi
I presume the A40 supports an IDE HDD controller ATA-5.
In such case the 120GB would be the max die to the 28bit LBA
But in your case I would test firstly an 80GB or an 120GB HDD.
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