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I bought some DM860H and DM556 drivers off Ebay and Aliexpress, respectively; they worked, but have no flyback diodes.

As PCW mentioned above, they do have flyback diodes for sure, but over voltage will destroy them as soon as powered on, and so will wrong polarity, or worst case, powering them with AC power directly from the transformer, that can happen with a miss wired bridge rectifier.
Was it you that had a blown capacitor in another topic?

So, any help on ethercat finding my drives would be nice. When i try twincat, it sees the drive but then it triggers a communication error. so something is set wrong somewhere.

That did not take long! ?
This makes it usable with Mesa boards and even parallel ports as they can easily count encoder signals

Normally on a 4 layer card you do not need top or bottom fills
unless for heat sinking or shielding. You do need to be a bit careful 
about the 3.3V/1.2V plane cut/bypass capacitors/supply inductance,
and some under FPGA filling of the VCC plane can help here.

The SPI clock will be the fussiest signal so if you are routing it
a long distance, it may need parallel termination at the end of the trace
(series termination does not work with two endpoints)