$ LD, SYSTEM_MGMT, Logical Disk Driver  A LD allows you to create a logical (software emulated) disk device B of a user-specified sizes using backing storage from a disk file; @ it is a form of partitioning.   These logical disks can then be A used for various purposes, including as staging areas required as ? part of mastering CD or DVD media on OpenVMS; as part of using  @ recording tools such as CDRECORD (versions are build into V7.3-1? and later, and versions are available for download from various @ sources), or the COPY/RECORDABLE_MEDIA command found in V8.3 and later.  A This LD V8.2 kit and its contents are not supported by HP OpenVMS  Engineering.  > This is an update to the versions of the LDDRIVER logical disk@ device driver kit found on previous Freeware releases, this kit A installs on OpenVMS Alpha V7.2-2, V7.3, V7.3-1, V7.3-2 and V8.2,  9 on OpenVMS IA64 V8.2 and V8.2-1, and on OpenVMS VAX V7.3.   C This PCSI installation kit supercedes all LDxxx VMSINSTAL kits, and ) the V8.0 and V8.1 PCSI installation kits.   D OpenVMS Alpha V8.2 and later, and OpenVMS IA64 V8.2 and later, have G integrated support for LD.   This kit will update the installed version C of LD to the latest version.  (Formal LD ECO kits may contain newer  software, however.)   D Releases OpenVMS Alpha V7.3-1 and later do have all necessary piecesG of LD latent, but the LD command verb is not registered in DCLTABLES by G default prior to V8.2.  Please see SYS$MANAGER:CDRECORD.COM for related 	 details.)   D This kit may or may not operate on releases older than OpenVMS AlphaF V7.2-2, nor on releases earlier than OpenVMS VAX V7.3.  It may howeverE be possible to build it from the included sources for these releases, 2 please see the included release notes for details.  D Releases LD063 and prior have a hard upper volume size limit of fourD gigabytes (4 GB), and larger volumes should not be configured.  ThisE kit, as well as the integrated LD implementation available in OpenVMS C Alpha and OpenVMS I64 V8.2 and later (and potentially also the most C current LD ECO kits for V7.3-2, if any), do not contain this volume  capacity limit.     