Larry,
Improperly written software can choke on long pathnames (or
anything that ends up being larger than the author thought the largest
possible would be).
For example, if the author thought the largest possible pathname
would be 80 characters…and you fed it a pathname 81 characters (or
longer) in length….that last character(s) would overwrite whatever happen
to be in memory beyond the end of the array used to store the name. That
could be harmless…or it could be fatal.
Some SCSI drives take a while to get ready….a brief wait in your
startup-sequence (perhaps 5 seconds) before you issue a binddrivers or
attempt to mount or access that drive may take care of things.
Don