Did my motherboard fry my SATA disk?

After earlier problems with a 160GB WD SATA disk which developed a very severe reading fault, I have been using the replacement with no problems for a week or two.  
Today this new disk developed a similar problem - part of the disk appears to have become corrupted and cannot be read at all, rather than give an error the system just hangs.  Disk was attatched to the Promise controller with no Raid using the special WD SATA connector.
HDTach shows blocks of the disk where the sequential read rate is zero and the WD data lifeguard disk diagnostics program (v 5.04c) gives a serious error on the quick test - the "Raw Read Error Rate" was 1 compared to a threshold level of 51.
My question is can the motherboard/disk controller cause this type of damage to a disk drive or is it more likely to be a  problem with the disks?
Thanks for any insights.
Geraint

Unlikely to be a JPEG virus, unless my digital camera is infected  
Friendly, witty, mildly sarcastic response aside - it was a good suggestion since I hadn't stated where the photo came from.  
Coming back to your last but one comment - do I understand you correctly that you reckon the SATA controller is more likely to cause data corruption than unrecoverable damage to certain sectors, and that physical damage is more likely to be caused by a power surge or short circuit?  This is something I know nothing about, but my gut reaction would suggest that a power surge or short circuit is more likely to completely wreck a disk than just certain sectors (possibly caused by a head crash?)?
Thanks for all your input on this one - as I said this is well beyond my area of knowledge.  Software I know well, low level hardware is do not!

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