[ltp] Writing to an NTFS disk?

[linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org]

I have ubuntu 6.06 on my Thinkpad R31.   I'd like to hook up an
external laptop hard drive via a  USB 2.0 port on a PC Card.   The
drive's formatted in NTFS and already has data, so I can't change the
filesystem without compromising its contents.

How can I read/write to an NTFS disk under Linux?  What little I've
read so far leads me to believe there aren't too many candidates that
are both stable and reliable.   Captive may come close.

Any thing else I can try?

Thanks for reading.