What improvements does BIOS 3.7 for Tecra M series contains

Hi,
I'm about to change the existing 80Gb hard disc for a Toshiba MK5055GSX, a disc with supposedly similar characteristics to the original, including the free-fall sensor (FFS) which I presume is the same as the Easyguard facility in the existing disc.
I've also updated the BIOS from 1.5 to to 3.7 WIN because I guess the original BIOS couldn't handle a disc as large as 500Gb.
Can anyone tell me what improvements are included in 3.7 WIN and if this will read a half-terabyte disc?
Thanks,
Rag

Well, I thought I'd better update those who have kindly responded. Thanks to them for so doing.
Firstly, following my instincts, I did update the BIOS to current version. My instincts told me that when the machine was purchased, BIOSs of the day might not recognise a very large disc and my instincts also told me that today's BIOSs might so I bought an MK5055GSX disc and have installed it. I'm delighted to say that the original Tosh Restore CD recognised all 500Gb of it and allowed me to partition the first half of the hard disc into 250Gb c: and a successful Windows Restore (from NTBackup) has put everything back onto it. Windows then allowed me to partition/format the remainder of the disc to d: and it all appears to be working.
So I've answered my own question and I place this information onto the Forum for the benefit of others.
Finally, http://www.48bitlba.com was flagged by my system as "dangerous", presumably containing malwars so I abandoned that link immediately without opening it.
cheers,
Rag

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