Hmm, I had two Apple OEM Quantum ProDrive LPS 270MB HD's that
would work fine on my 3MAX (NetBSD 1.4.1 on a DS 5000/200) from a cold
boot, but when I went to shutdown/reboot it would sync the disks, drop
back to the PROM and just hang when trying to boot. If I power cycled a
drive on the chain, (no matter which one) all the drives would work 
again. I also seem to remember a message on comp.sys.dec awhile back
about some Quantum drives mis-reporting a few mode pages. (command quene
length comes to mind) Perhaps write pre-alloc was why they were holding
up the SCSI chain waiting for a flush command, or it was just the 4.4BSD
SCSI driver...

	Chris

> None seems to have much problem with anything I have floating around for
> disks save for the 1gb limit on the /m10s for bootable system disks.
> 
> Allison
> 
> On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Andy Sporner wrote:
> > Maybe somebody can clarify something for me.  I had an 3100/M38
> > a few years ago and had to buy a disk for it.  At the time I
> > bought a Quantum 210 MB drive.  In order to use it with VMS
> > I had to get a special utility that I ran from my PC with the
> > drive and had to turn off the "Write-Preallocation" feature
> > off on the drive.
> >
> > Is this strictly a VMS thing?
> >