Proper default permissions/ ownership for OS X 2ndary drive?

I recently bought I new primary sata drive for a MacPro and loaded Leopard on it while keeping a 2ndary internal sata drive ... which included data ... intact.
Now under Leopard, under permissions for the 2ndary internal sata drive, it sees an "unknown" account (which is the previous Tiger owner) and
it doesn't allow any writing/ deleting on the 2ndary drive.
I know how to change the permissions and ownership but don't know exactly
what Leopard default ownership and permissions I should assign to the 2ndary drive.
The new Home acct name, System, Admin, Everyone etc.
Usually there is a cascading list of 2 or 3 but I can't remember what
they should be.
Can anyone tell me?
db

Apparently the permissions existing on this drive came from a previous user account. Since you seem not to be the user or the account bore a different username than you are now using, the files on that drive are protected from access unless you can log into the old user account.
Changing the drive's defaults may not help, but they would be exactly the same as you find on your existing startup volume: owner is system, group is admin, both read/write. If maintaining permissions isn't needed then you can CTRL- or RIGHT-click on the drive's icon and in the Ownership section of Get Info check the box to Ignore permissions. If you need to change all the permissions to conform to you as the current user then this won't accomplish the goal.

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