Secondary drives are locked and unuseable

I can not access either of my 2 non-startup drives. One on an internal bay the other and external USB drive/esata drive. When I am logged in as a user I get an error message that states I do not have sufficient priveleges. When I log in as a root user I can access the drives, but only as read only. When I try to change permissions in any way, I can't. There is always a lock icon in front of the drive in Disk utility as well as the info panel. When I moved the USB drive to another computer it was also locked.Disk utility does not show any errors on the drive.
My startup drive works seems to work just fine.
This all started when I applied permissions to my startup drive. I did the permission repairs and reset the password which allowed the computer to work, but what now?

Never mind this post. I found and applied these two commands in terminal from my user account and after rebooting the drives work fine.
sudo chflags nouchg /Volumes/"my drive name" and sudo chmod 775 /Volumes/"my drive name"

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