I was wrong.  It can remount unmounted drives; it cannot remount ejected drives.

The only way I have found to do the latter is a rather large hack:

> UPDATE: The only way to re-mount ejected external USB flash drives is to 
> unload and load the USB mass storage kernel extension:
> 
> kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBMassStorageClass.kext
> Followed by:
> 
> kextload /System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBMassStorageClass.kext
> Be aware that this will re-mount ALL external USB drives..


> On Dec 19, 2015, at 2:50 PM, William Ehrich <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> How? I couldn't make this work.
> (I'm on 10.11, but can't do it in 10.10 either.)
> 
>> Disk Utility can do this, so I would suspect there are third-party
>> tools that could do it as well.
>> 
>>> On Dec 19, 2015, at 1:07 PM, William Ehrich <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> When I have a USB memory plugged in and unmount it in Finder, how
>>> can I mount it again without physically unplugging it?
>>> 
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