Update,
Now, I've copied a 932Megabyte music directory onto it and I've had some interesting results.
I then copied this directory (folder to you Windows guys) 7 times to different folder names.
When I do a 'df -h' on the drive, 'df' is the linux 'disk free' command which looks at the disks own reporting of free disk space, it shows 6.8 Gigabytes used, which is what I expect.
When I do a 'du -sh' on the drive, 'du' being the linux 'disk used' command which actually traverses the directories and counts up file sizes, it returns saying 3.8 Gigabytes of data is on the drive!
Looking into some of the subdirectories I see that previously copied mp3 files have dissappeared which makes me conclude that the memory space where they resided has been over written.
So, there we go, even though it's misreporting the amount of free space it must be a 4 Gigabyte unit and not 16 Gigabytes.
Lolita, I may have misread the serial number on the memory chip, but it definately appears I have 4 Gigabytes of unique files.
Thanks for both your help, I'll keep you posted on any updates from the seller.
Z
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