Unable to read NTFS volume on OS 10.4.7

Hi All,
I have an Maxtor drive formated as a NTFS volume, which works well with my PC. It is my understanding that in OS 10.4 (or 3) I should be able to mount this drive as a read-only drive on my Mac. When I connect the drive to the Mac it says that the drive is un-moutable and asks me either to format, ignore or eject. Can anyone help?
THanks

Run WhatSize and see what it shows. People have found what should have been 4k in /Volumes only the drive didn't mount, and now there is 60GB under the Volumes directory.
Look in /private/var for tmp also.
Any P2P BitTorrent or something running and putting software or video in hidden directories?
I run fsck regularly, or boot from another drive and repair the drive. Only time I repair permissions is before or after installs, or if the "Ignore Ownership" was turned back on (which should be off).
25GB is close to 10% free space, which according to MicroMat, is about when hfs+ can run into too many file fragments for the directory to handle, and you end up with a lot or corrupt directory and files aren't available.
If you have Applejack, delete the cache files, but at least run fsck, and do some deep cleaning for now, backup with CCC, do an erase, zero the drive, and restore. But make sure you have a backup soon.
Besides WhatSize there is also Path Finder 4 and OmniDiskSweeper than can help identify where disk space is being used.

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