$LD, SYSTEM_MGMT, Logical Disk DriverALD allows you to create a logical (software emulated) disk deviceBof a user-specified sizes using backing storage from a disk file; @it is a form of partitioning. These logical disks can then be Aused for various purposes, including as staging areas required as?part of mastering CD or DVD media on OpenVMS; as part of using @recording tools such as CDRECORD (versions are build into V7.3-1?and later, and versions are available for download from various@sources), or the COPY/RECORDABLE_MEDIA command found in V8.3 andlater.AThis LD V8.2 kit and its contents are not supported by HP OpenVMS Engineering.>This is an update to the versions of the LDDRIVER logical disk@device driver kit found on previous Freeware releases, this kit Ainstalls on OpenVMS Alpha V7.2-2, V7.3, V7.3-1, V7.3-2 and V8.2, 9on OpenVMS IA64 V8.2 and V8.2-1, and on OpenVMS VAX V7.3.CThis PCSI installation kit supercedes all LDxxx VMSINSTAL kits, and)the V8.0 and V8.1 PCSI installation kits.DOpenVMS Alpha V8.2 and later, and OpenVMS IA64 V8.2 and later, have Gintegrated support for LD. This kit will update the installed versionCof LD to the latest version. (Formal LD ECO kits may contain newersoftware, however.)DReleases OpenVMS Alpha V7.3-1 and later do have all necessary piecesGof LD latent, but the LD command verb is not registered in DCLTABLES byGdefault prior to V8.2. Please see SYS$MANAGER:CDRECORD.COM for related details.)DThis kit may or may not operate on releases older than OpenVMS AlphaFV7.2-2, nor on releases earlier than OpenVMS VAX V7.3. It may howeverEbe possible to build it from the included sources for these releases,2please see the included release notes for details.DReleases LD063 and prior have a hard upper volume size limit of fourDgigabytes (4 GB), and larger volumes should not be configured. ThisEkit, as well as the integrated LD implementation available in OpenVMSCAlpha and OpenVMS I64 V8.2 and later (and potentially also the mostCcurrent LD ECO kits for V7.3-2, if any), do not contain this volumecapacity limit.