I always put the machine into Estop, hook up the rotary, change setting 30 to the correct indexer model, then clear Estop, clear all the alarms, then home the A axis. Quite often it will interrupt the homing sequence once with some warning (A axis overheat or some such) but I clear it and restart the homing and it finishes.
Even if you hook up the rotary with the machine powered down, you should press Estop before you power back up, so that you can enable the correct parameters before turning the servos on.
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