lion superdrive won't mount????

Same here but for other "external" drives too

I have the same problem with the SuperDrive. I also have to manually mount any USB flash drives inserted. My internal HDD are all fine. Been pulling my hair out since I frequently rip audiobooks from CD and have to remount every time I insert a new drive.

Did you find a solution?

try this

http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os...-up-lion-superdrive-fake-glitch-possibly.html

Another solution

Thanks. I called Apple. In the process of trouble shooting, we created a new user account, logged into it, and noticed that the drives (CD/DVD, USB thumb, external USB drive, external eSata drive) all mounted. I closed the account and logged back into my main account and suddenly they all mounted. Strange but creating the new account seemed to do the trick for me.

Turian.Spectre said:

http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os...-up-lion-superdrive-fake-glitch-possibly.html

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glad yours works. I have a problem myself. I think it might be related to this thread however nothing has helped me yet. I'm writing a message on apples discussion forum now. I doubt it will bring any results. I'm starting to seriously think of downgrading back to Snow Leopard. this is the first bad experience i had with mac OS ever! reminds me of my windows days. remember those? when you had to spend hours/days to fix something? The reason I got a mac is to have a computer that just works, even though i do not know how. have a look at my post, and let me know if you have any ideas? thanks.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1209927/

mounted drive "returns" when logging off

I've gone through a similar experience with my superdrive. When I would insert a music CD the superdrive wouldn't even show up in iTunes, and I could not see the drive in Finder. I could see it in Disk Utility but there was nothing I could do with it from there. I was logging off to try the solution posted here about logging in as another user. I had iTunes running and when logging off, OSX told me iTunes was blocking the logoff and did I want to force the logoff. Then iTunes displayed the CD that had already been inserted in the SuperDrive and everything worked normally form there.

So, I guess I'm suggesting that you just try opening iTunes, insert your music CD in the drive (it isn't recognized in iTunes or Finder - this is the problem), and simply attempt to log off.

--hope this helps.