Description

 Navtech Navteq Mazda Saab BMW Mercedes Nav DVD 2005 SDL SDAL 

May 17th 2005 NavTech DVD Image of Western Europe for Mazda, SAAB, BMW, Mercedes and potentially other cars which accept SDAL or SDL file format. 

This image can be written to a Dual Layer DVD. I used a DataWrite Titanium DVD+R DL disk and made 3 working copies. 
I used Nero 6.6.0.13 although I'm confident that the version is not important. I also know of people having success with DVDDectypter. 

There are two important factors in writing this image to a disk. 

1) Write the DVD with a modified BookType. The ability to fo this seems to be specific to some DVD Writers. Some Nu Tech, Plextor, RICOH, BenQ, LG, LiteON and NEC devices are known the have the ability to change the book-type of teh disk being written. My Device is a Samsung TSSTCorp TS-H552U with US07 Firmware. The bookType needs to be DVD-ROM. 

2) Write the disk in Disk-At-Once (DAO) mode. Other methods were unreadablein my car. 


The original disk came from a 2006 SAAB 93. The Volume Label on the original disk was 050517_1200 which I assume is a date-stamp and build number. My old disk was 040122_0710 and it came with my Mazda in 2004. 

This DVD Image has been tested and works reliably in a Mazda6 and should also work in Mercedes and BMW DVD based systems that use the SDAL Map format.