I don't know the answer, but linux, with modern bootloaders, including LILO, are not limited to what the BIOS says for the maximum hard drive size. Linux only needs that BIOS info to boot. I have a machine that, when I attach a 20 GB hard drive, the BIOS shows it as 8 GB. But linux can access the whole drive. So your quest to find out how big of a hard drive you can use is probably a red herring. It does not matter what the BIOS can address. Linux will do direct communication with hardware after boot.
-- Doug
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