New Hard drive in NTFS--will not mount on Mac

I have a 3rd Gen ipod with a dead 30g hard drive. I bought a 40g Toshiba that came formatted in NTFS. I installed the new hard drive and tried to run updater, but the ipod will not mount on a Mac Powerbook G4.
The ipod shows that it is charging and says "Disk Mode," has a check mark on the screen and says "OK to disconnect"
I have always used a Mac and I do NOT have access to a PC to reformat it there (at least not that I know of).
How do I force the Mac to see my ipod with the new drive? Oh wise and powerful Mac wizards, help me!
PS If this is a really simple thing to fix, please be gentle. I still use my IIsi and enjoy playing Civilization 1. The G4 belongs to a roommate.

To recap:
I have a 3rd Gen ipod with a dead 30g hard drive. I bought a 40g Toshiba that came formatted in NTFS. I installed the new hard drive and tried to run updater, but the ipod would not mount on a Mac Powerbook G4. I am connecting through firewire.
The iPod showed that it was charging and said "Disk Mode," had a check mark on the screen and said "OK to disconnect"
It was stuck here for hours and then it finally managed to mount. (it might have been after a reset, I don't remember).
I ran iPod updater and RESTOREd the hard drive. It asked for a new name, language, etc. iTunes opened and I recopied some of my music back onto the iPod. I ejected the iPod safely and copied some more music from an external drive onto my main machine.
When I tried to reconnect the iPod, it went back in to disk mode, check mark, ok to disconnect, etc and there it has been for 26 hours.
I cannot even get iPod updater to find it.
What the heck is going on?

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