Multipath reports device-mapper: table: major:minor : multipath: unknown hardware handler type

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • No multipath devices show up after boot
  • Error messages are output complaining about "unknown hardware handler type":

device-mapper: table: 253:10: multipath: unknown hardware handler type
device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
device-mapper: table: 253:10: multipath: unknown hardware handler type
device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
:

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.8

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