diff --git a/check_iostatE b/check_iostatE
index a03acbc24a67ccf8f666af1c0e27823f6813ef82..a882555c8883326bd3572a98d0ad11be2f156754 100755
--- a/check_iostatE
+++ b/check_iostatE
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ GAWK=gawk
 IOSTAT=iostat
 VERBOSE=0
 
+CFG=/etc/check_iostatE.cfg
+
 HOST=""
 
 HWARN=2
@@ -19,49 +21,69 @@ TCRIT=3
 SWARN=8
 SCRIT=20
 
+IGNORE=""
+
+parseconfig() {
+    eval "`nawk '($1 == "ignore-disks:") { print \"IGNORE=\\\"\"$2\"\\\"\" }' <$1`"
+}
+
+if [ -f "$CFG" ]; then
+    parseconfig $CFG
+fi
+
 while [ "$1" != "" ]; do
     case "$1" in
 	-v|--verbose)
 		VERBOSE=1
 		;;
 
+	-I|--ignore-disks)
+		IGNORE="$2"
+                shift
+		;;
+		
+        -C|--config-file)
+		parseconfig "$2"
+                shift
+                ;;
+
         -H|--host)
-		HOST=$2
+		HOST="$2"
                 shift
                 ;;
 
-        -R|--rsh)
-		RSH=$2
+        -R|--rsh-command)
+		RSH="$2"
                 shift
                 ;;
 
 	-hc|--hard-critical)	
-		HCRIT=$2
+		HCRIT="$2"
                 shift
 		;;
 
 	-hw|--hard-warning)
-		HWARN=$2
+		HWARN="$2"
                 shift
 		;;
 
 	-tc|--transport-critical)
-		TCRIT=$2
+		TCRIT="$2"
                 shift
 		;;
 
 	-tw|--transport-warning)	
-		TWARN=$2
+		TWARN="$2"
                 shift
 		;;
 
 	-sc|--soft-critical)
-		SCRIT=$2
+		SCRIT="$2"
                 shift
 		;;
 
 	-sw|--soft-warning)
-		SWARN=$2
+		SWARN="$2"
                 shift
 		;;
 
@@ -98,10 +120,10 @@ else
 fi
 
 
-exec $CMD | $GAWK -vverbose=$VERBOSE \
-    		-vhcrit=$HCRIT -vhwarn=$HWARN \
-    		-vtcrit=$TCRIT -vtwarn=$TWARN \
-    		-vscrit=$SCRIT -vswarn=$SWARN \
+exec $CMD | $GAWK -vignore="$IGNORE" -vverbose="$VERBOSE" \
+    		-vhcrit="$HCRIT" -vhwarn="$HWARN" \
+    		-vtcrit="$TCRIT" -vtwarn="$TWARN" \
+    		-vscrit="$SCRIT" -vswarn="$SWARN" \
     '\
         BEGIN { gtotal=0; ndisks=0; disks=""; ncrit=0; nwarn=0; crits=""; warns="" } \
 	/^c[0-9][0-9]*t[0-9][0-9]*d[0-9][0-9]*/ { dev=$1; serr[dev]=$4; herr[dev]=$7; terr[dev]=$10; vendor[dev]=""; pfa[dev]="" } \
@@ -115,7 +137,8 @@ exec $CMD | $GAWK -vverbose=$VERBOSE \
 		total[dev]=serr[dev]+herr[dev]+terr[dev];
 		if (verbose) \
     			print dev, "(" vendor[dev]""product[dev], rev[dev] ")", ":", total[dev], ":", serr[dev], herr[dev], terr[dev], ":", merr[dev], dnrerr[dev], nderr[dev], rerr[dev], irerr[dev], pfa[dev];\
- 	        if ( product[dev] !~ /^CD/ && product[dev] !~ /^DVD/ ) { \
+ 	        if (!(product[dev] ~ /^CD/ || product[dev] ~ /^DVD/ || \
+		    (ignore != "" && dev ~ ignore))) { \
    		gtotal += total[dev]; \
 		ndisks++; disks=disks " "  dev; \
     		nsoft+=serr[dev]; nhard+=herr[dev]; ntran+=terr[dev]; \