Thanks Jonathan, that was basically the approach I was going to take if necessary.

Eddy, I don't know why but I was under the impression that the auto-detect would only work for Leadshine steppers. I suppose if it's measuring the steppers response to given input signals though it could work for any make of stepper. I'll give it a go to see what it comes up with, I think the auto-detect can be triggered from software as well which is probably the way I'd go.