My faithful standby, Darik's Boot & Nuke, apparently doesn't support SATA disks; apparently that little gem was yanked to make the for-pay version actually worth buying. Even stepping back to an old ...
A colleague at work has 20+ scsi disks from pc's and sun's which need wiping before chucking, sizes vary from 11 MB (!) to I guess 2 GB. He needs a way to easily wipe them, I suggested a linux boot ...