Which HDD capacity Satellite A20 S-103 supports?

Hello everyone and sorry for bad English ;)
I want to upgrade my Laptop's HDD but I am not sure which maximum size notebook supports?
It's a Satellite A20 s-103, with Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz.
Can you help me about it?
I am thinking on buying a 160 GB Samsung HDD! :)
Its very important question for me, and I could not be able to find an answer yet.
Sincerely! :)

Hi
For me the upgrade of the HDD to the 160GB is questionable.
Im not sure that the BIOS will recognize such big size.
I know that the notebook should recognize the single sizes like 30GB, 40GB, 60GB or 80GB.
Of course you could try to connect the 160GB and it would be very interesting to know the results. Please report the details...

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