On 06/15/2015 03:56 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > I was rsync'ing data from one system to another, and the recipient > suddenly started throwing DRDY errors. Now, it's a fairly new WD Red > 3TB, and I'd think it was just a bad drive... but I'm really confused > by this, from the logs: > Jun 15 15:34:43 <servername> kernel: ata3: SError: { Dispar } > > Dispar? And googling, every reference I find to that word always has > something else there. dispar = disparity different, dissimilar, not same, unequal, unlike. what is/are complete line/s that show dispar err? > Any thoughts? your drive may be flaking. back up drive with errs, run a non destructive test on drive. do you have smartd running? if so, check /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog. if you are not running smartd, start running smartd. read: man smartd man smartctl man update-smart-drivedb -- peace out. -- If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! -- in a world with out fences, who needs gates. -- CentOS GNU/Linux 6.6 tc,hago. g .