just want to make sure

[defsrg]

i am attempting to copy one drive to another. they are both 120 gb wd hd's. i am setting the drive that is already xtremed as primary master or hda, i am setting the drive i want to copy the files to as primary slave or hdb. now is this correct?
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1024k
i think this is right as if = source and of =destination
thanx
ps also it doesnt say in the hinsdale how to but i would think you would have to mount both drives b4 doing this so:
mount /dev/hda
mount /dev/hdb
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1024k
im pretty sure thats it looking for a vote of confidence for double checking purposes??

[BubbleLamp]

Your mount statements aren't valid, but they aren't required either. Just run the dd command as you wrote.

[defsrg]

not that this matters cuz we got my original drive fixed but i would like to learn possibly why this drive copy did not work. after performing this i put the drive in the tivo and all i got was a recycle of welcome,almost there, and gsod ,just constant. the only thing i can think is because the drive wasnt clean it already had 2.5.2 on it but then again it should have just overwritten the files right ???? and yes my jumpers and cables are right lol