LD, SYSTEM_MGMT, Logical Disk Driver LD allows you to create a logical (software emulated) disk device of a user-specified sizes using backing storage from a disk file; it is a form of partitioning. These logical disks can then be 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. 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 installs on OpenVMS Alpha V7.2-2, V7.3, V7.3-1, V7.3-2 and V8.2, on OpenVMS IA64 V8.2 and V8.2-1, and on OpenVMS VAX V7.3. This PCSI installation kit supercedes all LDxxx VMSINSTAL kits, and the V8.0 and V8.1 PCSI installation kits. OpenVMS Alpha V8.2 and later, and OpenVMS IA64 V8.2 and later, have integrated support for LD. This kit will update the installed version of LD to the latest version. (Formal LD ECO kits may contain newer software, however.) Releases OpenVMS Alpha V7.3-1 and later do have all necessary pieces of LD latent, but the LD command verb is not registered in DCLTABLES by default prior to V8.2. Please see SYS$MANAGER:CDRECORD.COM for related details.) This kit may or may not operate on releases older than OpenVMS Alpha V7.2-2, nor on releases earlier than OpenVMS VAX V7.3. It may however be possible to build it from the included sources for these releases, please see the included release notes for details. Releases LD063 and prior have a hard upper volume size limit of four gigabytes (4 GB), and larger volumes should not be configured. This kit, as well as the integrated LD implementation available in OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS I64 V8.2 and later (and potentially also the most current LD ECO kits for V7.3-2, if any), do not contain this volume capacity limit.