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====== CHD ======

//From the mame 0.131 source//

Compressed Hunks of Data header format. All numbers are stored in Motorola (big-endian) byte ordering. The header is 76 (V1), 80 (V2), 120 (V3) or 108 (V4) bytes long.

    V1 header:

    [  0] char   tag[8];        // 'MComprHD'
    [  8] UINT32 length;        // length of header (including tag and length fields)
    [ 12] UINT32 version;       // drive format version
    [ 16] UINT32 flags;         // flags (see below)
    [ 20] UINT32 compression;   // compression type
    [ 24] UINT32 hunksize;      // 512-byte sectors per hunk
    [ 28] UINT32 totalhunks;    // total # of hunks represented
    [ 32] UINT32 cylinders;     // number of cylinders on hard disk
    [ 36] UINT32 heads;         // number of heads on hard disk
    [ 40] UINT32 sectors;       // number of sectors on hard disk
    [ 44] UINT8  md5[16];       // MD5 checksum of raw data
    [ 60] UINT8  parentmd5[16]; // MD5 checksum of parent file
    [ 76] (V1 header length)

    V2 header:

    [  0] char   tag[8];        // 'MComprHD'
    [  8] UINT32 length;        // length of header (including tag and length fields)
    [ 12] UINT32 version;       // drive format version
    [ 16] UINT32 flags;         // flags (see below)
    [ 20] UINT32 compression;   // compression type
    [ 24] UINT32 hunksize;      // seclen-byte sectors per hunk
    [ 28] UINT32 totalhunks;    // total # of hunks represented
    [ 32] UINT32 cylinders;     // number of cylinders on hard disk
    [ 36] UINT32 heads;         // number of heads on hard disk
    [ 40] UINT32 sectors;       // number of sectors on hard disk
    [ 44] UINT8  md5[16];       // MD5 checksum of raw data
    [ 60] UINT8  parentmd5[16]; // MD5 checksum of parent file
    [ 76] UINT32 seclen;        // number of bytes per sector
    [ 80] (V2 header length)

    V3 header:

    [  0] char   tag[8];        // 'MComprHD'
    [  8] UINT32 length;        // length of header (including tag and length fields)
    [ 12] UINT32 version;       // drive format version
    [ 16] UINT32 flags;         // flags (see below)
    [ 20] UINT32 compression;   // compression type
    [ 24] UINT32 totalhunks;    // total # of hunks represented
    [ 28] UINT64 logicalbytes;  // logical size of the data (in bytes)
    [ 36] UINT64 metaoffset;    // offset to the first blob of metadata
    [ 44] UINT8  md5[16];       // MD5 checksum of raw data
    [ 60] UINT8  parentmd5[16]; // MD5 checksum of parent file
    [ 76] UINT32 hunkbytes;     // number of bytes per hunk
    [ 80] UINT8  sha1[20];      // SHA1 checksum of raw data
    [100] UINT8  parentsha1[20];// SHA1 checksum of parent file
    [120] (V3 header length)

    V4 header:

    [  0] char   tag[8];        // 'MComprHD'
    [  8] UINT32 length;        // length of header (including tag and length fields)
    [ 12] UINT32 version;       // drive format version
    [ 16] UINT32 flags;         // flags (see below)
    [ 20] UINT32 compression;   // compression type
    [ 24] UINT32 totalhunks;    // total # of hunks represented
    [ 28] UINT64 logicalbytes;  // logical size of the data (in bytes)
    [ 36] UINT64 metaoffset;    // offset to the first blob of metadata
    [ 44] UINT32 hunkbytes;     // number of bytes per hunk
    [ 48] UINT8  sha1[20];      // combined raw+meta SHA1
    [ 68] UINT8  parentsha1[20];// combined raw+meta SHA1 of parent
    [ 88] UINT8  rawsha1[20];   // raw data SHA1
    [108] (V4 header length)

    Flags:
        0x00000001 - set if this drive has a parent
        0x00000002 - set if this drive allows writes

CHD v4 header sample:

{{:chd4_header.png|}}