DVD-R won't mount with Mountain Lion

Just upgraded to Mountain Lion on 2009 MacBook Pro and now cant mount a blank DVD-R to archive. Any ideas?

Hi, Im having exactly the same problem with my 2009 iMac and I cant find an actual solution- it's NOT a hardware problem, as it reads both music CDs and movie DVDs, the problem is with blank discs.
My theory is that Apple have disabled the facility, as all the new Macs that ship with mountain Lion don't have an optical drive installed (only the Mac Pro's and they ship with Lion and Mountain Lion is offered as a download) and they are trying to drive consumers onto their Cloud Storage facility.
Maybe this is why it's so difficult to find a solution and why Apple have kept so very quiet with their responses on these forums...
Come on Apple, if you read this please act upon it- do I now have to downgrade back to Lion just to use my Superdrive as it's meant for?!

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