Semaphore Timeout Period has expired?

[Zoe123]

NT4
Veritas Backup Exec 8.5

While trying to erase a tape the alert above "Semaphore Timeout Period has expired" appears and causes job to fail. Anybody know what this means???

Cheers

 

[bsv]

If this helps:

http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/190598.htm

"These errors may have occurred because the storage device driver did not receive a response back from the storage device or the controller within a specific amount of time. (usually about 30 seconds)..."

Sergey

 

[Guest_imported]

I have 2 new identical Dell servers. Each has a DLT drive and BE ver 8.6. One is a file and print server and backs up every time. The other is an exchange/proxy server and completes only about 50% of the time. It always errors out with "The semaphore timeout period has expired" Any suggestions on diagnosing this problem would be appreciated.

 

[Guest_imported]

I'm having more or less the same problem. We are trying to connect to a sambasrv from our Windows NT-clients, and always getting: "Microsoft Windows Network: The Semaphore Timeout Period has Expired". I haven't found any solution for it? Do you maybe now one?
Thanks.

 

[Guest_imported]

You need to install the latest SCSI drivers for your SCSI Card.

http://forum.seagate.com/SERVICE/Em...47c06674e9bc8a32862567fb005ca6bd?OpenDocument

John

 

[Guest_imported]

Hi! we're using backup exec version 8, we backed-up some data from machine A, and tried to restore it to machine B.
machine A is NT 4.0 and B is win2k. The restore of data is
erratic, it fails and gives us a "semaphore timeout period expired". Anybody experienced this...I saw some postings but these are based on "backup" jobs and not "restore" jobs.
And, prior to restoring the data from tape to machine B, backup exec was tested on machine B to be working.

All inputs are welcome.

Thanks!