Mac can't see NTFS files

I have a 160Gb external UDB drive (Toshiba Gigastore) that I've repartitioned from being 100% NTFS into a 50Gb primary Fat32 partition and a 100Gb primary NTFS partition.
I was hoping to use the Fat32 partition to back my MacBook up and the NTFS partition to share (read-only) files from my Windows PC.
When the drive was 100% NTFS, my MacBook could see all the files, but now I've repartitioned it, the MacBook can't see any files on the NTFS partition. Disk Info knows there's some files there as the free/used spaces are correct, but I can't see anything.
John

MacBook:~ John$ ls -hal /Volumes
total 80
drwxrwxrwt 6 root admin 204B Oct 17 13:39 .
drwxrwxr-t 29 root admin 1K Oct 16 19:40 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 John John 82B Oct 15 17:19 ._IPOD
drwxrwxrwx 1 John John 32K Oct 15 19:24 FAT32
drwxr-xr-x 1 John John 0B Apr 22 2009 Gigastore
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1B Oct 16 19:40 Macintosh HD -> /
MacBook:~ John$
Funny that the ls list on the Gigastore showed two '..' entries rather than '.' and '..'.
I wonder if it's because I've partitioned this disk into two? It was working fine as one large NTFS partition. Maybe I'll try making the NTFS partition first then a second FAT32 partition.
John

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