Adding a Third Party SCSI Disk to a DECstation5200 with DEC SCSI

[thx1138]

In hopes of saving money on an already expensive system, my associate
has decided to buy a third party SCSI disk to hang off of a DECstation
5200.  Has anyone out there had problems with partitioning (or
formatting)?  The DECstation has the "standard" DEC SCSI controller.
Any do's or don'ts that he should be aware of when it comes to
formatting or partitioning?  How about for the disktab/format.dat
entries?  Can he possibly use newfs and make it work?  :-)

Thanks in advance,

  \\Lee
thx1138 at nyu.edu