kill -9

[Norman R. Frech CPLS]

Is there a stronger kill than kill -9?  I had a process which attached
itself to my tape drive and then locked up.  I couldn't kill it no
matter what I tried.  This caused me great concern, backups are very
important to me and I couldn't access the tape drive with this process
on it.  I shut down the system (two of my file systems didn't unmount
because of the process and shutting down didn't kill the process either) 
and rebooted.

Any suggestions.

Norm Frech < frech at mwraaa.army.mil >