External Drives Locked

I know this has been discussed quite a bit but I cannot seem to get things right. I have been trying all of the Terminal codes to no avail. I was hoping someone might be able to help me out. Here is where I am at. I have 3 Lacie External drives that are locked. I cannot access them at all
Get Info.
Greg (Me) CUSTOM
Greg (Me) CUSTOM
(unknown) CUSTOM
everyone CUSTOM
In terminal I ran:
lO@ed /Volumes/600_Gig
And Got:
drw-rw-r--@ 17 Greg Greg uchg 646 Dec 9 10:20 /Volumes/600_Gig
com.apple.FinderInfo 32
0: user:Greg allow list,addfile,addsubdirectory,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
Please, if anyone can help with this, I would be very greatful. These drives are not backed up. I know they should be, but if anyone can help me out, that would be awesome.
Thanks!
Greg Kuhn

Run Disk Utility and Repair Disk Permissions.
Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select FirstAid, then click: Repair Disk Permissions. Quit DU when it's finished and reboot.
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