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To sum it up...
That's the best one place link that I have found but to sum all the information i have gathered this week from various sources, newer PS2 versions (V9/V10) are supposed to be able to read dvd+-rw and to achieve it, sony replaced the previously used BA chips with LA ones which can handle more types of media - the laser units themselves were not changed and are the same as say V7s.
The main problem is that when a media is poor, instead of giving up, the LA chip tries harder by pumping more current into the coils - bad media results in current spikes that are beyond the tolerance of the coils which amazingly quickly get burnt, the even sadder part is that when they burn they just melt abit causing shorts which quickly reduce the resistance of the coils, in an attempt to overcome that problem our beloved LA chip pumps in more and more current which causes further reduction of resistance in the coils until the coils (normally the focusing one) gets to around 0.9 ohms and at that point the LA chip blows putting the whole fiasco to a sad end with a disfunctioning unit. At that point you have to replace both the laser unit and the LA chip... (It's funny how none of the fuses burn in the process, I wonder why Sony put them there in the first place)
Romeo mod just replaces the 12V input to the LA chip with a 5V one, thus reducing the possible current by more than half - that way, the coils live longer but bad media can't be read.
Good DVD-Rs are considered to be RitekG04 ones (Hopefully, I'm going to get some tomorrow) but...
A. I have no idea how much longer do Romeo modded systems live though I haven't seen reports of people complaining after having systems modded that way.
B. I still don't know the status of bad cd media (I have chepo cds gallore - and it was one of these that ruined my system in the first place) how much danage can bad cds cause to a system modded with Romeo?
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