Normal user has no access to mounted filesystem.

I have tried to add second harddrive to an existing RHEL 8 VM so that normal users can have extra space. The steps are:
- Creating an additional hard disk in the VM storage section
- Partitioned and formatted it as ext4
- Created mount point /media/drive2 with mode = 777
- Created group "drives"
- Changed /media group to "drives"
- Created user xxx
- Added user xxx to "drives" group
- Added fstab entry: /dev/nvme0n1p1 /media/drive2 ext4 defaults,nosuid,user,x-systemd.device-timeout=20,nodev 1 2

The new drive comes up and mounted successfully by root and accessible only by root. All of the folder permissions are correct under root login. However, user xxx cannot access the mount point. Doing ls -ltr shows:

drwxrwsr--. 3 root drives 4096 Jun 26 13:40 media

ls -ltr /media
ls: cannot access '/media/drive2': Permission denied
total 0
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? drive2

Is there other access control other than file permissions?