> It is entirely possible to put non-DEC third party drives in 
> the VAXStation 3100/M76. 

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?